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Provide a Global User Exit point for program termination.

Currently CICS provides the GLUE XPCFTCH which is given control before an application program is executed. Various IBM and ISV products use this to get control to build an environment for their code to use.However, there is no corresponding exit p...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve Web Service Assistant

The Web Services Assistant DFHWS2LS generates nillabel fields as 2 fields in the high level language definition. One for the field itself and one field attr-nil-xxx-value with X'01' for true and X'00' for false. The utility should generate 88-leve...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Additional field for TCPIPSERVICE resource definition (GSE Requirement GGCIC11001)

A special IP stack can be addressed by its IP address only (or the default stack must be used). A specification of the stack by the name of the STC would make the definition more transparent. This is already implemented in Integrated IMS Connect (...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update of bundles via phasein (like programs) and NOT via CEDA

CEDA and CEDB are CICS administration transactions and not allowed for other coworkers like application developers! A reason for this is the revision because CEDA for non-administraors are a very big securityhole!
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Provide load module attributes at autoinstall time

Our CICS program autoinstall exit program has been designed to set the DATALOC attribute based on the AMODE of the program being autoinstalled. Since CICS does not make load module attributes directly available to the autoinstall exit, we are loca...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 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.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Tranclass Timeout

Add a mechanism to timeout transactions waiting on Tranclass. The timeout value needs to be a parm that the customer can set.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

System event and/or policy for excessive wait time on ENQ

It would be very helpful to have the ability to set a system event, and a policy, that would detect situations where any arbitrary but selectable ENQ has either 1) been held for at least a specified period of time and/or 2) is being waited upon by...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

show the transactions which is using the program

When set program phasein, if the program is in use, CICS will load the new load module for all the new program call. But the tasks running still use the old load module till all the tasks which are using this program end. Current there is no way t...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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