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Allow CICS to use Passtickets instead of Passwords e.g. for Web Services

Using Passtickets instead of Passwords in CICS is currently very cumbersome. You need to use the r_ticketserv and r_gensec callable services (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha300/genpas.htm).The only CICS API s...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS IPIC Heartbeat timeout adjustable

CICS TS 5.2 introduced IPIC heartbeats. Every 60s CICS starts a CIS1 task for every IPCONN active in the system.The idea is to check that the partner region is reachable. The timeout value for the check is 2 x 10 seconds and is not adjustable. If ...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Variables in dynamic Library definition

If you want to do multiversioning in cics, you have to define a library each application. At wuestenrot the library files would look like this: TB90.TESTPLAT.TESTAPPL.MAJ0001.MIN0001.PAT0001FB90.FACHPLAT.TESTAPPL.MAJ0001.MIN0001.PAT0001PB90.PRODPL...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

New fields added to message payloads break Web Services and JSON APIs

When CICS is acting as a consumer (requester) of Web Services or APIs, CICS should not fail the request with a parsing error if the external provider adds a new field to their response payload. Industry best practices indicate that adding new attr...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Platform/Application DB2 Schema

To make the handling of data in a cloud environment more flexible and easy, we would like to have the possibility to add a DB2 Schema to a application and/or to a platform. I hope Schema is the right context here, but I am not realy a DB2 expert. ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Support JMS within CICS

Currently, only MQ-Java-Classes are supported in CICS. Support of JMS is a requirement to port applications from WAS to CICS.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

JVM Server Kategory - Dynamic Deployment

At the moment I am trying several things in JAVA with Cics 5.1 and applications and there is one thing more and more I don't like.<br /><br />For every bundle I have to define a JVM server where it runs on. I think this is not realy fl...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Controlling CICS detailed internal tracing from a line mode transaction such as CEMT

The facility to control the SPCTR STNTR SYSTR USERTR trace settings through a line mode command such as CEMT S INTTRACE (or similar).Optionally also the trace settings for each domain setting.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Delivered

Improve CWS Statistics

TCPIPService statistics has a field called SOR_TRANS_ATTACHED, which has a description of 'The number of transactions attached by this TCP/IP Service'. The name and description of this field was perhaps correct many years ago when CWS attached one...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS OSCORE SMF record

State Street Corporation is interested in an additional statistic; that of the largest available low Dynamic Storage Area. We, and other CICS shops, are still running legacy CICS programs that consume a significant amount of DSA. This factor requi...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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