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CICS TS - parameter SIT TCPIP (TCPIP = YES) with command online

Good afternoon, Please check the possibility of including the parameter SIT TCPIP (TCPIP = YES) via command online, in flight, without the necessary of stop/start of CICS that is currently needly.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Bedre soap fault message

we are running with z/os sysplex distributor in front of CICS webservice so we have a lot of CICS that take webservice request. when we are getting a 4038 error from a webservice program on cics we are getting this soap fault<ERROR_MESSAGE> ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add support in URIMAP for hostname with underscore

URIMAP resource definitions do not allow for hostname values that contain an underscore character. This makes CICS unable to interact with some remote services, just because of a naming restriction. Also, this behavior seems inconsistent with an u...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Timeout parm neeeded on WEB CONVERSE

Need a TIMEOUT interval parameter on the WEB CONVERSE (or WEB RECEIVE) command so that:- interval doesn't have to be set in the transaction definition (via profile) for EVERY transaction in the application that may issue WEB CONVERSE;- interval ca...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS TS 5.* (DFHMEU)

CICS TS 5.* Message Editing utility (DFHMEU)
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Stop/Quiesce Shared TS Servers in a controlled manner

There is currently no facility to quiesce activity in Shared TS servers in order to shut them down in a controlled manner. A CANCEL command is required to stop Shared TS servers.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for 'dynamic' JSON content (same as exists for XML)

Please add support for 'dynamic' content within a JSON RESTful API payload. This would be conceptually then same as the existing support for dynamic SOAP XML content (which uses the 'xsd:any' XML schema type). This may require the JSON Assistant t...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHPI0508 possible if all sessions to remote system are in use. CICS does not queue request.

This RFE being submitted as a result of investigative APAR PH20753 being closed. The text of that APAR was: You experience DFHPI0508 errors when trying to run a tran involving RequestStreams that need to route over to another system. CICS will try...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Alternative way to manage CICS supplied definitions

I suggest that CICS development move away from CSD-based definitions for CICS-required resources and begin using EXEC CICS CREATE during region startup to ensure that all resources are defined, and defined properly. CPSM began using this approach ...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Generate messages during emergency restart showing indoubt systems that should be restarted.

Please generate a message during emergency restart that shows any related CICS regions or subsystems that must be started to resolve all indoubt UOWS during the emergency restart.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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