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    Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

    Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Add fields to the CPSM CICSRGN Resource Table so as to be able to compute the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval ratio

    This would make it easier to monitor the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval Ratio. As it is right now, MSGUSR for each CICS region has to be scanned for the DFHDS0102 message. The items needed to calculate this value, or the value itself, could be put int...
    9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Functionality already exists

    SECTION name special register

    A common challenge in CBL development is the need to add program references in error handling including of course the Procedure Section where the issue has originated from. Developers often manage to incorrectly set this, the classic invalid metho...
    3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Needs more information

    Support External JWTs in CICS

    Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
    10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SOAP Web Services

    One of the 'issues' with CICS WS SOAP based services is that XSD validation needs to switched off in live Prodn operation due to the overheads involved. Could though the use of OSR's (Optimised Schema Defns) help here and provide a route by which ...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

    Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Enable turning USER EXITs on and off through CPSM, CICS Explorer, etc.

    Currently this can only be done through the CICS SPI. However, it's not hard to create an exit that locks everyone out of the native CICS black screen (in our case, this was the desired outcome, except for system users), and (as a side effect) pre...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Consistent SMF 110 Record generation for Long Running Transactions

    In our shop, we have long running transactions (LRT) that are primarily or entirely threadsafe. We have MNFREQ set to 1 minute and don't get consistent SMF 110 record generation for the LRTs. This may be because the LRT was not on the QR TCB when ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Fail gracefully if SYSMDECK undefined or wrongly defined

    With 5655-EC6 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4.0, if SYSMDECK is omitted or defined to SYSOUT=*, the compiler fails with an assertion failure: Assertion failed at ../../ibm/env/ListingAgent.cpp:6191: 0 Could not open source DD:SYSMDECK TR_MvsCall...
    3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    IBM Enterprise COBOL - Suspected error in the usage example in the documentation of the CURRENT-DATE function

    Hi, The Language Reference documentation for the CURRENT-DATE function describes a receiving structure with a WS-DIFF-FROM-GMT field declared in S9(4) DISPLAY. By default, signed fields in DISPLAY format are zone-signed, and therefore the field wi...
    about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Under review

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