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Type 4 DB2 driver compatability in CICS OSGI JVM server

Support Type 4 DB2 drivers from OSGI JVM's also address the integrity issues, commit and roll back
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Agricultural Bank of China has a new requirement of service class re-classification.

System: CICS TSActor: User needing new feature of service class re-classification. Description :MRO connection is set up between TOR and AOR. There is a long running task in TOR receiving request from front end. When the long running task receives...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM Workload algorithm enhancement

Customers need IBM to develop an enhancement to the present CPSM Algorithm in order to save MLC (monthly license charge). The current CPSM solution provides workload balancing which dynamically routes transactions among a set of target regions (AO...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Change CEOT security so read just displays (no fields changeable)

Would like CICS CEOT transaction to have display only fields (no changeable fields) if read access is given to CEOT and have the changeable fields if update access is given to CEOT.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Flexible hostname lookup when using a proxy

Flexible hostname lookup is needed when using a proxy. CICS acting as a client can consume services/APIs on both internal (customer) and external (internet) networks. When consuming external services, CICS needs to route requests out through a pro...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add DISP sub parameter options for CICS TDQ dynamic allocation

When defining a dynamically allocated CICS Extra Partition Transient Data Queue for output using dynamic allocation, the documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=resources-tdqueue-attributes indicates three options are availa...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Event to interact with ML for z/OS

update CICS Event to be able to call the Machine Learning for z/OS product. This will enable any CICS user or CICS system event to interact with the latest in mainframe analytics tools. The event could inject data into the ML service in addition t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Inquire and browse Applications in a similar manner to programs.

CICS contains SPI and XPI interfaces to inquire on a particular program as well as browsing through the list of installed program definitions. However, although the same functions for applications are available internally in the same domain, these...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Object Oriented COBOL support in CICS

Currently Object Oriented COBOL is not available in CICS. We think that CICS should support the entire suite of features in IBM COBOL, so developers can use all the functionality of IBM COBOL, without limitations by the platform.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Catering for variable timezones at the CICS region level

We have CICS applications running on a z/OS mainframe that now need to accommodate varying local time differences (i.e. multiple countries & multiple time zones in those countries), including daylight saving, while running on the same z/OS LPA...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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