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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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    Configurable PURGE for unresponsive CICS tasks on IPIC timeout to z/OS Connect EE

    This enhancement proposes adding a new configuration option within the CICS region or connection definition to allow customers to control the task termination behaviour when a CICS task attached via z/OS Connect EE over an IPIC session fails to re...
    29 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Callable Services & Other Ressources Access security and Traceability

    Callable services run within the CICS environment. In certain cases—such as ICSF—these services are critical, and so are the associated keys safeguarded in the Key Data Set (KDS). When a transaction performs encryption, CICS is granted access to t...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    When allocation/open fails DFHFC0500, display conflict information somewhere

    Right now, when this situation occurs, it is sometimes difficult and labor intensive to figure out why this happened. Sometimees requiring scanning SMF data, looking at dumps, etc. Would be helpful to display the conflict information (usually zOS ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 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
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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 ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

    The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
    almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

    Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SOAP Web Services

    One of the 'issues' with CICS WS SOAP based services is that XSD validation needs to switched off in live Prodn operation due to the overheads involved. Could though the use of OSR's (Optimised Schema Defns) help here and provide a route by which ...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

    Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Enable turning USER EXITs on and off through CPSM, CICS Explorer, etc.

    Currently this can only be done through the CICS SPI. However, it's not hard to create an exit that locks everyone out of the native CICS black screen (in our case, this was the desired outcome, except for system users), and (as a side effect) pre...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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