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SMF SOCIPHER is needed for outbound TCP/IP connections.

We need to review SMF on a regular basis to identify if TCP/IP connections were encrypted. The SOCIPHER field is great for inbound connections. Not only does it give the actual cipher used for the connection, if a cipher number is present (>000...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Ability to override parameters in a JVM profile when sharing between JVM servers

We share CICS LIBERTY ports across many LIBERTY CICS regions and also share the same LIBERTY.jvmprofile. CICS Liberty does not allow Shared Port supports for IBM Health Checker, Debug port -Xrunjdwp and using single LIBERTY.jvmprofile rendering th...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Provide additional information for E.C.FORMATTIME

The FORMATTIME is able to return a time and date string in RFC3339-format. But this is always returned in UTC and sometimes it might be helpful to have that in local format or a certain timezone. Therefore please add a parameter LOCAL or TIMEZONE(...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Autoinstall for CEE RDO Group programs

Allow the 1600 program definitions in RDO group CEE to be autoinstalled.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Issue a message when a CICS maintained Shared Data Table (CMT) is full

When a user maintained shared data table (UMT) is full, the request fails and a DFHFC0432 message is produced. When a CMT is full, the request will not fail because it will be written to the backing file, but it would be useful for a message to be...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

We have a requirement to retain the installation data on a VERIFYX call

A recent change at RSU1412 level has resulted in failure of passwordless calls to ICHRIX01. An exit we use - ICHRIx01 requires that the INSTLN - Installation Data - is passed to it. Removal of the INSTLN from the VERIFYX call within CICS means tha...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Need a way to determine CICS SIT parms after startup.

For debugging new installations or for problem determination at any time, it would be very convenient to determine after CICS/TS startup what cics tables suffixes and DHFSIT parameters were being used for this execution of CICS. This could be done...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS TCPIPSERVICE - RETRY needed

When doing an IPL, sometimes CICS is started before TCP/IP is fully up and running. This results in TCPIPSERVICEs being unable to start.--- This RFE is to add two parameters to the TCPIPSERVICE definition:1. RETRY_COUNT to specify how many times C...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CTS 5.4 EXCI need BROWSE Container function

cics V5.4 delivers long anticipated channel and containers over EXCI. While this is new ground for batch applications, we have existing cics applications which deliver a set of containers to ECI c# and Java client code, via cics transaction gatewa...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support for OpenID client feature in CICS Liberty

We understand from our discussions with IBM (Nigel Williams) that Liberty supports the OpenID client feature, but that this is not yet formally supported as part of Liberty running under CICS.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered