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impact for CICs with z/OS maintenance (ciphers)

We recently applied maintenance on our z/OS LPARThe APAR OA47405 and OA48868 have an impact on the cipher suites, but the CICS systems are not awared of these modificationsWe would like to have a APAR generated for CICS too when z/OS maintenance h...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support storing/managing/loading application binary executables (load modules) in/from zFS-resident bundles in CICS/TS

CICS/TS loader should support the ability to load binary executables (load modules) directly from application bundles that have been stored in zFS as opposed to having been stored in a traditional PDS(E) load library.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Modify EXEC CICS ENABLE to permit specifying conditions for when the exit program is to be driven

Could EXEC CICS ENABLE command be modified to specify a condition for when an exit program could be driven. Conditional execution could be based on CICS resources such as task number, transaction name or program name for example. Maybe we could ha...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

MRO and Threadsafe

Allow threadsafe for remote requests (file control, dpl, etc.) over MRO.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

client ipadr provided with EXCI

We would like to have the client IP adr when running CTG on z/OS with EXCI connexions to CICS
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need a new transaction equivalent to CEMT INQUIRE

The auditors want reports on who has accessed critical transactions such as CEMT. Even though we have our security definitions set up so most users can only use INQUIRE with CEMT, SMF simply reports a user executed CEMT with no further breakdown. ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

Copied from the following APAR: (sorry for the all caps)APAR= PN08959 SER= PIN=566540301-817 IN INCORROUT EIBTIME FIELD HAS INCORRECT SIGN AFTER ASKTIME. STAT= CLOSED DOC FESN6540301- CTID= HU0414 ISEV= 4 SB91/10/23 RC91/10/24 CL91/11/18 PD91/11/2...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

TRDUMPCODE Current count increase in size

For the TRDUMPCODE display, would like to increase the Current count from 4 digits to at least 6 digits. Although it seems like a excessive amount, we have had occasions of test CICS regions creating more than 100K transaction abends when triggere...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support up to 100 chararcters in mapped PLI names when using XML assistant DFHSC2LS / DFHWS2LS

Due to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_4.2.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.applicationprogramming.doc/datamapping/dfhws_wsdl2pli.html the xml assistant DFHSC2LS truncates resulting PLI names to a maximum of 31 characters. But PLI supports u...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 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.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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