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    Pass Business data from abending transaction to CICS policy EP adapter

    In Policy system rules abend transaction. Offer a CICS container where a CICS transaction business application can put data, like customer id, which could help investigate an abend. The container should be made available to the EP adapter transact...
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Allow CICS to use 2GIG page frames

    Hi, We are a heavy users of CICS Data tables. We load millions of records in many regions to Data tables. We observed that CICS uses all the real memory(4TB per Lpar limit) but still couldn't load all the data we would want. We then reached IBM C...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Descriptive wait reasons for tasks waiting in DB2 or IMS

    We would like more information exchanged between CICS and DB2/DBCTL about the status of a task that is considered to be "in-db2" or "in-IMS", so that the wait reason for a task in a DB2 or DBCTL call shows what the task is waiting on.
    over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Bypass DFHH0414 Health Check for a CMAS

    In CICS/TS v6.1 section "Setting up a CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS)" the manual : XCMD=NO : For a CMAS you must specify NO for CICS commands. But after the v6.1 CMAS is started, there is a DFHH0414 message in health check IBMCICS/CICS_REGION_CO...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

    Create round-robin algorithm for CPSM routing.

    This new routing algorithm would add to the existing [LN]GOAL and [QUEUE]. Allowing, by option of the system management, that the distribution of the routing is perfectly balanced. With the choice of this algorithm, it would be interesting to para...
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    WEB RECEIVE timeout

    The WEB RECEIVE timeout value is the RTIMOUT on the profile. We need to be able to dynamically, to controle the timeout value. This could be solved if the WEB RECEIVE was enhanced to include a option 'TIMEOUT' to controle the timeout time. The TIM...
    over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    CCSID as input option to WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER

    The HTTP Header value must be in codepage 37 EBCDIC. This is not documented together with the WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER CICS command.As the CICS regions is likely to run with a different codepage it would help if the codepage translation to 37 could be...
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Allow non-SMS datasets in a LIBRARY definiton

    Relax the restriction that non-SMS datasets must only be specified via DFHRPL, and hence allow non-SMS datasets to be used in a LIBRARY definition.
    over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Provide CICS TS Message Utility Features in CICS TS5.*

    I use the CICS Message Utility to modify the DFHAC2206 abend message such that it says "DFHAC2206 HH:MM:SS APPLID Transaction XXXX failed with abend AZCT. If abend is AZCT, a timeout has occurred. Re-enter transaction to continue."I have the timeo...
    almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    API to Return RACF Custom Fields

    In addition to the RFE ID: 82049 for RACF. Capability similar to the EXEC CICS ADDRESS ACEE API to view a signed on user's additional RACF details from the segments that are defined to that Userid most specially the RACF Custom Fields that are def...
    about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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