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NEWCOPY solution for CICSPlex applications

CICS to provide a solution/utility to do NEWCOPY against a module across all the CICSPLex regions where the PGM exists.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Make upper/lowercase conversion possible in YAML override file.

We are using substrings of symbols (e.g. CICS_APPLID) in our resource overrides. Example (APPLID=XCICO): - urimap: - selector: name: GERARD overrides: path: "/test-{{CICS_APPLID[0::1]}}/of/gerard" This resolves in: /test-X/of/gerard However, most ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Allow limited scope surrogate permissions for CICS

Allow for a surrogate permission, such as *.DFHSTART with access of READ, to be limited in scope to a CICS transaction, program, or both. Such granularity in allowing a surrogate permission is not available today.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

a new command if you have a address that is returned from a exec cics getmain it will be nice to able to ask CICS the size of the getmained area

if you are using getmain shared from one program and you get the address passed to a another program it will be nice if there was a command where you can ask cics storage manager how long the getmained area is from program number 2. cics do know i...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CSNC restrict IRC Connect Retry count to 50

CICS/TS MRO current design has no limit to the number of IRC retry CONNECT requests issued by transaction CSNC. This has led to High CPU consumption by hundreds of CICS Regions trying to connect to a stalled CICS Region. It does not seem logical t...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS - ICSF callable Interface to use transaction owner's userid instead of CICS region userid

We need urgently an interface to propagate the transaction user as the checked userid in CSFSERV and CSFKEYS classes .In our environment RACF access control is used for RACF classes CSFSERV and CSFKEYS for permitting technical userids to associate...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

DFHBRNSF data set counter

Customer feels CICS should automatically reset the counter and not require customers to take an outage of their region(s) because of message DFHBR0509 being issued, when the DFHBRNSF dataset counter is nearing its limit.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS GLUE XFCFROUT should pass the UEP_FC_SYSID from REMOTESYSTEM file control definition if SYSID not specified

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS users collecting dependency data need to determine if EXEC CICS file control requests are function shipped to a remote system. If the EXEC CICS file control command specifies the SYSID(xxxx) parameter, the CI...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Using CICS DFHWBPW for normal password change

Our idea is to use CICS password change program DFHWBWB, which is normaly triggered when the passwort expires, also for the normal password change process.We tried it and it works in principle, when using any URL like http://serverurl/DFHWBPW. Wha...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Return profile attributes in INQUIRE PROFILE command

The INQUIRE PROFILE command should return all the attributes of a CICS profile definition.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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