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Ability to define a TRANCLASS in a CICS bundle

We would like to have the ability to define a TRANCLASS in a CICS bundle. We define a TRANCLASS for every TRANSACTION defined in the system. The CICS bundle is great for deploying applications but it falls a bit short with the missing TRANCLASS. I...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Option to isolate and end (looping) transactions in the JVM-Environment

We want to have the opportunity to isolate and end looping transactions in the JVM-Environment to avoid risking a JVM-Restart caused by the loop. We want to ensure the availability of the JVM for the rest of the transactions. We dont want to run...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

VSAM LOGREPLICATE in asynchronous mode

VSAM parameter ALTER LOGREPLICATE in asynchronous mode.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Suffixed version of DFHCNV

We would like to see suffixed versions of DFHCNV selectable by Initialisation Parameter just like any old CICS System Table. This would allow different tiers of CICS systems to use different DFHCNVxx load modules with potentially differing source.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

impact for CICs with z/OS maintenance (ciphers)

We recently applied maintenance on our z/OS LPARThe APAR OA47405 and OA48868 have an impact on the cipher suites, but the CICS systems are not awared of these modificationsWe would like to have a APAR generated for CICS too when z/OS maintenance h...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

make the MNFREQ parameter available for threadsafe environnement

We have application long running transactions executing on L8 TCB We noticed that MNFREQ parameter doesn't work for these kind of transactions So we would like not to wait the end of the CICS session to have a performance records written for these...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

client ipadr provided with EXCI

We would like to have the client IP adr when running CTG on z/OS with EXCI connexions to CICS
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need a new transaction equivalent to CEMT INQUIRE

The auditors want reports on who has accessed critical transactions such as CEMT. Even though we have our security definitions set up so most users can only use INQUIRE with CEMT, SMF simply reports a user executed CEMT with no further breakdown. ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TRDUMPCODE Current count increase in size

For the TRDUMPCODE display, would like to increase the Current count from 4 digits to at least 6 digits. Although it seems like a excessive amount, we have had occasions of test CICS regions creating more than 100K transaction abends when triggere...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support up to 100 chararcters in mapped PLI names when using XML assistant DFHSC2LS / DFHWS2LS

Due to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_4.2.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.applicationprogramming.doc/datamapping/dfhws_wsdl2pli.html the xml assistant DFHSC2LS truncates resulting PLI names to a maximum of 31 characters. But PLI supports u...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration