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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

On urimap client shall it be possible to add proxy server information

if cics shall call a external partner thru a exposed api we need a proxy server due to security reasons
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Make autoinstall support also available for terminals like AICONS=AUTO for consoles

We would like to eliminate the AUINSTRM URM for the automatic installation of terminals, consoles, and more.For terminals there is an option AICONS=AUTO where CICS automatically generates the console TERMID. This would be also great if this option...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

EXEC CICS WEB READ QUERYPARM to accept a CHARACTERSET as well.

if URL parameters contain of national characters (such as Danish æøå) the EXEC CICS WEB READ QUERYPARM can't be used for getting the data in EBCDIC 277 we want if we get data in EBCDIC 277 that %C3%86 becomes Æ equal '7B'x and %C3%98 becomes Ø equ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Show what url a task is suspended for when it is suspended for RECEIVE reason SOCKET

With API calls being added to existing CICS task we see latency and need to be able to find the URL being called. The task list should include the url or urimap and path for task in suspend for RECEIVE reason SOCKET.
30 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Make CICS WEB interface threadsafe and optimize throughput and response time in CICS and maybe save a little CPU

IBM has an undocumented fix to the CICS WEB interface that can optimize throughput and response time plus maybe save a little CPU.The fix is very simple, as it is just a change of the definitions of three WEB interface modules which get added the ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Cics should support HTTP/2

there is many vulnerabilities in HTTP/1.1 and it will be nice if CICS do support HTTP/2
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Asynchronous requests connect Mother transaction with Child transaction in RACF to allow Mother Trans to run Child

We use asynchronous requests to enhance existing SOA architecture solutions to introduce API calls to Cloud. Often an API call will be added to a number of existing CICS transactions (Mothers). Today we have to identify all run users of Mother CIC...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Support for VSAM spanned records longer than 32k

Customer is forced to rewrite several CICS programs (and related batch programs using same VSAM datasets) if the record size grows over 32kB limit... Which happens 1-2 times/year... That brings operational risks, increased complexity, application ...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Ability to query a tasks purge status

When purging a task, it is said to be "marked for purge". It would be good to see if a task is "marked for purge", and the level of that purge PURGE vs FORCEPURGE - Since the task is flagged. Say for example, an automated process, to purge errant ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Future consideration

Add to Cics policies the ability to include or exclude specific transaction names.

We need to specify Cics policies to cancel transactions that exceed a specific response time, excluding some long-running ones or those with another allowed threshold. For example, all A* transactions can last for 5 seconds at most, except for ABC...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Future consideration

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