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TCPIPService definition be able to get Hostname / IP address and port information from CICS System definition.

Customer intends to use the IPCONN Autoinstall program (DFHISAIP). However, as they have a CICSplex with several MASes, he would like to define just one TCPIPSERVICE, protocol (IPIC), to be used for all regions during the autoinstall process. For ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Propagate SOAPFAULT to locally-optimized WebServices

With Webservices, a service-provider can issue SOAP-Faults to return information to the service-consumer. These SOAP-faults are modeled within the wsdl. If the service-consumer uses the INVOKE SERVICE command to call a WebService that runs locally...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Avoid overhead of systrace snapshot at program check time

CICS uses an ESTAE or ESTAEX to establish its general purpose recovery environment. One of the performance implications of this design is that on every program check, before the CICS ESTAE exit routine is driven, RTM2 will do a systrace snapshot (...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Determine issuer of Call level DLI call from XRMIOUT exit program

We have a need to determine, at run-time, the invoking program of every EXEC CICS call and of every External Resource Manager call..Our application programs are mostly Cobol programs.These Cobol programs often use a Cobol dynamic call to invoke ot...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Allow CONTROL RACF Access level to be used for CREATE and DISCARD commands for SAF checks to the CCICSCMD class

In addition to ALTER authority also allow CONTROL to be used for all FRACHECKs to the CCICSCMD class for CREATE and DISCARD commands. As a general RACF point of design ALTER should never be used in a general resource class profile as well. The rea...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

"Summarized active target region distribution trends" in WUI needs additional information

EYUSTARTWLMATARG.TABULAR2 view in the WUI, "Summarized active target region distribution trends" gives the total number of Route Selections for each target region. That field is RTSELECT, and it is populated from data in the AOR descriptor.While i...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update system logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data.

Update logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data rather than a fixed retention period. IXGDELET requests for data that has not reached that RETPD should be honored. From a logstream admin...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

"Cancel button" when WUI hangs with 'BUSY' message.

Findings using the WUI and issuing a query which sends a request to a MAS that is experiencing problems such as MXT, SOS, or other severe problems will cause the WUI to hang until the request times out. Despite the parameters that let to determine...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

XRMIOUT exit invoked because of an EXEC DLI command issued by a program that was Cobol called needs a way to determine RSA

The situation: 1) The Initial Program of a CICS transaction, or a program that was invoked by EXEC CICS LINK or EXEC CICS XCTL, does a Cobol Call to invoke a ProgramB.2) This ProgramB does an EXEC DLI call.3) There is a Global User Exit program th...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

MAL pending (24) error. WLMSPEC with two owners.

A transaction (SVL$) was removed from the CRE003 transaction group and added to SEG003 transaction group. This transaction was installed in two different Specifications: SPC64$10 and SPC65$00. The SPC65$00 has two different owners: M204 and M314. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect