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CICS Event to interact with ML for z/OS

update CICS Event to be able to call the Machine Learning for z/OS product. This will enable any CICS user or CICS system event to interact with the latest in mainframe analytics tools. The event could inject data into the ML service in addition t...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Enhance EXEC CICS ASSIGN with ASRABEAR option

The EXEC CICS API for ASSIGN returns many data items related to program checks (e.g. ASRAKEY, ASRAINTRPT, ASRAREGS, ASRAPSW, etc). But the one item that is not available to the ASSIGN API, that would be of great benefit for solving a wild branch, ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Agricultural Bank of China has a new requirement of service class re-classification.

System: CICS TSActor: User needing new feature of service class re-classification. Description :MRO connection is set up between TOR and AOR. There is a long running task in TOR receiving request from front end. When the long running task receives...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM Workload algorithm enhancement

Customers need IBM to develop an enhancement to the present CPSM Algorithm in order to save MLC (monthly license charge). The current CPSM solution provides workload balancing which dynamically routes transactions among a set of target regions (AO...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

HTTP Message Compression in CICS Web Service Context

The request is to enable the sending of smaller messages by making CICS compatible with common compression algorithms (e.g. GZIP). The context is CICS Web Services over HTTP (with CICS as both requester and provider).
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty Urimap disabled error

We are deploying Liberty apps with the application platform context. This means we have a cics bündle containing a urimap, warfile, etc. which can be enabled with an application. The developers now wanted to do a bugfix in Version 1.0.0 in an appl...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Applications not installed after JVM error

We had an timout error in the JVM. This caused, that after a cold start the installed apps in application/platform context have not been installed. After changing this to a warm start now it works, but on this weekend we installed new PTFs and we ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Inquire and browse Applications in a similar manner to programs.

CICS contains SPI and XPI interfaces to inquire on a particular program as well as browsing through the list of installed program definitions. However, although the same functions for applications are available internally in the same domain, these...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

In CICS: Allow products, like CICS VT, to be driven at end of task processing and before the syncpoint.

CICS VT intercepts CICS File Control requests in the File Contol GLUEs and converts them to DB2 requests. These are leaving the DB2 cursors OPEN.When the task reaches end of task syncpoint, Recovery Manager calls DB2 to PREPARE and COMMIT before t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration