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Comparison operator in Resource override file

Hi, The resource override yaml file has options to give the filters such as "is" "is not". It would be helpful to have options like "greater than", "less than", "greater than equal", "less than equal". These are helpful to filter resources. Ex: Se...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhancement of Web Service Assistant for Enterprise PLI

When generating wsdl/wsbind files with the Webservice Assistant DFHLS2WS for all of our business services written in PL/I, we receive the message DFHPI9565E. DFHPI9565E: ALIGNED and UNALIGNED keywords are not supported for an entire structure. Thi...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Cipher file name on com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile parm of Toggle file

Hi, Witht he CICS TS61, i see new toggle file parm com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile={true| false } This parm forces all the outbound calls to use the defaultciphers.xml. We already maintaining a custom cipher file for all inbouds as it is possib...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS: Fragmentación de la memoria

La memoria de CICS se fragmenta y no existe ninguna forma de solucionar ese problema. Esta situación, impide utilizar áreas de, por ejemplo, 20 MB a transacciones de aplicación, algo que imposibilita la correcta ejecución de las transacciones, hac...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Handling of bad HTTP requests

Hello IBM Support, Security requirements use vulnerability scanners to 'ping' CICS, and these lead to false positives. A scanner may produce an error, that's not really an error...can CICS be enhanced to handle http errors better? Thank youJohn Ca...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CETR PF5 SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) - Transactions defined in bundles should behave consistently and CETR not abend AEIP

I think a good enhancement (thats doesn't need any recovery over cics restarts) would be to allow SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) for transactions defined from bundles Currently INVREQ resp2 300 is issued whilst using CETR to change the tracing leve...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

Remove obsolete CMAS from CICSPlex

Remove obsolete CMAS from storage in CICSPlex scope.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Newcopy of Liberty Application in CICS

In CICS V5.3. it is possible to phasein a OSGI bundle A Liberty application can't be phasein, that is proberly because the application need to be stopped and restarted to do the operation. It would be nice to have a newcopy function for this. beca...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support DFHAP1900 messages at PLT time

The SPI audit message DFHAP1900 is currently not supported until after CICS startup is complete (when the DFHSI1517 Control is being given to CICS message is written). Consequently, SPI commands issued by startup PLT programs (running under the CP...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

The ability for CICS to capture data and graph into Grafana/Promethius.

We would like a similar capability that MQ supplies via GitHub that provides capabilities to format display data and allows you to graph it via Grafana/Promethius. This request would not be for a separate chargeable product but provided either in ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration