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CICS Identify QMGR from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB

Please change CICS function 'Identify QMGR' from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB, for detail please reference case num:TS009163460
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Flexible hostname lookup when using a proxy

Flexible hostname lookup is needed when using a proxy. CICS acting as a client can consume services/APIs on both internal (customer) and external (internet) networks. When consuming external services, CICS needs to route requests out through a pro...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS Enhanced Security Authentication

Our internal security requirements team have asked us to reach out to IBM to request Enhanced CICS Security Authentication
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Need additional error message for failed Btachrep Delete

Running a Batchrep job that specified a series of remove commands gave no messages at all for each command until an invalid use of a generic value with the next command then reporting it had failed because of a previous error. REMOVE PROGDEF NAME(...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Addition details in message ID: EYUXL0033I

When CPSM is going to purge a task at shutdown, it should issue an EXEC CICS INQ TASK(12345) to see if the task has a Principal Facility. And if it does, it should then query that facility with an EXEC CICS INQ TERM(XXXX) in order to get the CONNe...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Federated Registry support for CICS Liberty

System : CICS Liberty - Registry Actor : User who has the dist LDAP ID by ID Propagation and SAF ID in z/OS In the CICS Liberty, the ID Propagation can be configured to support mapping the distributed LDAP registry ID and SAF ID. In this case, the...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS shutdown initiates phaseout of all the JVMSERVERs prior to PLTSD pgm execution.

Running under CICS TS 5.4 with WebSphere Data Interchange (WDI) which provides PLT shutdown program EDIJSTOP. However, CICS is setting the JVMSERVER status to PHASEOUT before passing control to PLTSD pgm, hence EDIJSTOP is unable to run, hence EDI...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration