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The USERID should be always processed in upper case

Actually the USERID received from CTG requests, INBOUND Web services and the CESL/CESN transactions are kept in the regions as they are entered by the client application or in the terminal. We expect that the USERID value is always in upper case.
almost 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

cicsdp process sleep for ever after it reaches the maximum retries and have to restart cics region for ITM KT8agent connect

If the ITM Kt8 agent is not available, cicsdp process sleeps for ever after it reaches the maximum retries.The customer has to restart region to make cicsdp to reconnect to ITM kt8 agent. It is current design.
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries IPIC heartbeat function

The CICS IPIC heartbeat function discovers and reports connectivity problems with idle connections by sending a heartbeat message over a connection during periods when no other messages are being transmitted.
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER unimplemented

We need to use these CICS documented command:EXEC CICSWEB WRITEHTTPHEADER()NAMELENGTH()SESSTOKEN()VALUE()VALUELENGTH()END-EXEC
about 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Output error messages on TXSeries console when ECI request is abnormally ended

Target System: TXSeries and CTGMany customer uses ECI request to call applications on TXSeries from CTG application.We found that TXSeries does NOT output any message when ECI request is abnormally ended in a specific situation. That is when mirro...
about 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

IBM COBOL Support on TXSeries on x86 Linux

Currently in Linux x86 platform, TXSeries only support COBOL-IT and MF COBOL. And ShanDong Cooperate League customer is requesting IBM COBOL support on TXSeries Linux x86.
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Userexit 7 for IPIC connections

Userexit 7 should be working also with IPIC connections to CICS zOS that we can send RACF user credentials for verification to CICS zOS through TXSeries from a application on our windows CICS clients. As an alternative IBM Communications server sh...
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

changing the console log files destination directory

EPO needs to write console log messages in a specific directory in a /log File System with enough space and not in the /var TXSeries region directory.
almost 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Abends not reported in the CICSSTAT_TRAN_TRANS_ABENDS statistics counter

The statistics CICSSTAT_TASK_NUM_TRANS_ABENDED counter reports the number of ABENDs produced in the TRANCLASS. The value of the CICSSTAT_TRAN_TRANS_ABENDS counter is always equal to zero.
almost 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CTG COMMUNICATIONs statistics

We have 2 CTGs connected to one TOR region.In the ISC statistics we have 2 lines for each CTG and all the counters are equal to zero.We notice that the only counter updated is for the AOR communication (PPRD).We would like to have the number of in...
almost 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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