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AMODE64 as AMODE 31 is everywhere in the bowels of CICS, and the product would need almost a complete rewrite to support AMODE 64 COBOL.

To support Above the BAR storage allocations. COBOL supports this, but CICS does not.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Application entry point identification

We are using a generic wrapper as a front end to our business applications. This front end uses COBOL calls, no LINK This makes the current entry point identification impossible for us. The real application identification is within a header in the...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Not under consideration

Ability to account the CPU consumption for RLS access after migration to threadsafe.

After the programs were migrated to threadsafe, the CPU usage by the accesses to the RLS were removed from the SMF110 field, RLSCPUT (now is zero) and were added to the USRCPUT field, making the customer not able to know how much CPU time was cons...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic ICVR setting if using Debug Tool

Increase or disable ICVR (runaway task) for transactions running under Debug Tool.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CPSM REXX API to pass back COUNT values (DISPTIME) dispatches

Writing REXX program to query CPSM values; API repertoire looks complete, except for passing back Composite Field Count values, for example DISPTIME. DISPTIME is a composite field of STCK12 TIME and 4 byte COUNT. COUNT being the number of samples ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Program Newcopy or Phasein to show both current and new lengths (and PHASEIN RES>0)

CICS Program Newcopy or Phasein to show both current and new lengths. Our Code Asset Management (CAM) and Audit department uses the old and new program lengths for comparison of migrated code lengths. If Newcopy or Phasein sucessful; echo the leng...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separately

Provide a mechanism to separate out the permission for performing a normal shutdown vs any other, such as immediate.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow TCPIPService definition in CICS to be AT-TLS Aware (Retrofit from CICSTS V53)

I would like CICSTS v51 to have retro-fitted from CICSTS v53 the AT-TLS aware mode :- AT-TLS Aware mode is where the address space issues an AT-TLS calls to query a socket for its AT-TLS status. The address space can access items such as the clien...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Remove NEWCOPY requirement from RDO Dynamic LIBRARY changes

Remove the need to do NEWCOPY of programs or a region recycle when a new LIBRARY def is added or an existing one is changed.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS to fully support encoded http messages

We are running a CICS Provider Web service. We need to compress the response. We have a transport handler which takes the response in DFHRESPONSE, zips the content into another container using a Java program, sets the http header Content-Type and ...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration