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DFHBRNSF data set counter

Customer feels CICS should automatically reset the counter and not require customers to take an outage of their region(s) because of message DFHBR0509 being issued, when the DFHBRNSF dataset counter is nearing its limit.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS - ICSF callable Interface to use transaction owner's userid instead of CICS region userid

We need urgently an interface to propagate the transaction user as the checked userid in CSFSERV and CSFKEYS classes .In our environment RACF access control is used for RACF classes CSFSERV and CSFKEYS for permitting technical userids to associate...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Multiple values for GRNAME SIT Parameter

Option to provide multiple values for GRNAME SIT parameter instead of just one. This option is very helpful when we hosting multiple applications in same CICS region.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Multi-factor authentication reason code and messaging for EXEC CICS API

Provide specific SAF reason codes and messaging returned on the EXEC CICS VERIFY PHRASE/PASSWORD and EXEC CICS SIGNON commands when using them with multi-factor authentication users.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

There is a need for a new GLUE point in the DISABLE LIBRARY processing

When a user issues a DISABLE LIBRARY command to CICS (either directly, or indirectly via a DISABLE BUNDLE) then one of CICS' obligations is to de-allocate the library. While Xpediter maintains an open handle against the DCB there is no possible wa...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Provide more details on a CMCI Timeout

Attempting to list the CICS regions via the CICS WUI when one of the regions is unresponsive produces a response that contains a warning and error message and the data for all the regions that did respond: Messages: EYUVC1278E Unable to obtain da...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow arrays w/in arrays for DFHJS2LS/DFHJSON

We are using CICS Cobol to make Machine Learning calls (and integrate key ML data into the OLTP). For IBM ML, this works well. For Azure, however, the result is delivered as an array of arrays in JSON. This is not supported currently in CICS DFHJS...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

MSG ID for record coming out in CSDL TDQ

When CICS writes records to CSDL for all the RDO changes, the record looks like below. 8104 001 CEDA Z106998 01/14/19 07:44:39 DEFINE TRANSACTION(WXYZ) GROUP(JOHN) PROGRAM(WXYZ) TWASIZE(0) PROFILE(DFHCICST) 8104 001 CEDA Z106998 BEFORE 01/14/19 07...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS GLUE XFCFROUT should pass the UEP_FC_SYSID from REMOTESYSTEM file control definition if SYSID not specified

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS users collecting dependency data need to determine if EXEC CICS file control requests are function shipped to a remote system. If the EXEC CICS file control command specifies the SYSID(xxxx) parameter, the CI...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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