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Dynamic Transaction Routing

We are routing transactions (3270 based) and programs (CTG and CWXN based) from a TOR to AOR's. When we route a program from the TOR (active) to an AOR (in SHUTDOWN Phase) the routing program is called with DYRERROR set to 1, request rejected beca...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

More GRPLIST parameters for CICS-TS 5.3 or higher / four is not sufficient

More GRPLIST parameters for CICS-TS 5.3 or higher / four is not sufficient.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Generate 88-Levels for nillable fields

DFHWS2LS generates for each field with the attribute nillable=true two fields in the corresponding copybook. One for the content of the element and one for a flag, which indicates the existence of any content. The program using the copybook then h...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

URIMAP and restfull api

When running RESTFUL API it will be nice if it is possible to run different tran names for the same URI based on the method GET/POST and so onso some users are only able to see datat but not update them we are using liberty in CICS
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

OTE, Threadsafe and Concurrency Statistics

As part of our threadsafe project, post execution, we review the changes to the programs' PPT definitions, after defining them as Concurrency: Threadsafe. We use: DFH0STAT, SMF 110 performance data and SYSVIEW. We review a number of statistics. Am...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Extend the application of CPSM DEFAULTWARNCNT to include the 'missing' tables

As described in the referred PMR, CPSM WUI and CICS Explorer queries for many CPSM tables can produce very large result sets that put operations at risk. All CPSM Table queries should be treated to the same limitations that currently apply to wher...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

ICH408I for DFHSJ0210 security error

DFHSJ0210 should produce an ICH408I when a security exception occurs and to provide an absolute path to any missing file or directory.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Determine VSAM FILE definition attributes KEYLENGTH/RECORDFORMAT and RECORDSIZE from catalog

VSAM File attributes (local and remote files) should be determined from z/OS catalog entry instead of defining the values in the corresponding FILE entry in DFHCSD
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Platform Isolation

I have been discussing this topic with several people from the lab, but I also want to write it down one time, to have it written and to maybe make the why clear. So why is this important for us? 1) We have several Cics Regions, where the Cics is ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Support JSON for HTTP event adapter formats

We've received a request to create an event to pass data to GELF, a feature within the Graylog product to provide log structuring.http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.0/pages/gelf.html We would like to pass data to GELF using Common Base Event REST format...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration