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Remove NEWCOPY requirement from RDO Dynamic LIBRARY changes

Remove the need to do NEWCOPY of programs or a region recycle when a new LIBRARY def is added or an existing one is changed.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatically SET WLMHEALTH IMMCLOSE at the beginning of shutdown process

During AOR is shutting down, there is a small time window when TOR still routes transaction to this AOR and then causes AZI2 abend and DFHAC2007 message. The Documentation indicates we could initiate a cool-down process by using the SET WLMHEALTH ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance CICS to fully support encoded http messages

We are running a CICS Provider Web service. We need to compress the response. We have a transport handler which takes the response in DFHRESPONSE, zips the content into another container using a Java program, sets the http header Content-Type and ...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable the WSACONTEXT BUILD function to add the wsa:to without overwriting the default endpoint

In the context of CICS web services using SOAP when invoking a service, I want to be able to use the WSACONTEXT BUILD function, in a COBOL/CICS program, to add the wsa:to without it overwriting the default endpoint from the WEBSERVICE with a new d...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Is a defect

Frequency based thresholding for policy rules and events

Please provide user customizable mechanism to only trigger if the monitored event occurs more than N times in X minutes. This would be useful for thresholding within a single task and for thresholding across tasks.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic mechanism to get programs started when any CICS region initializes

We would like a feature that could run a program in any CICS region during initialization. This could be implemented such that an application makes a request to a CICS service to define a program and library and they would be started every time CI...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Propagate original Userid from CPSM interface / CICS Explorer (GSE requirement GGCIC10006)

Changes made through CICS explorer (CE) or the CPSM WUI are executed in the target region using the CICS region Userid rather than the original Userid.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Identify QMGR from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB

Please change CICS function 'Identify QMGR' from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB, for detail please reference case num:TS009163460
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Remote SYSID returned to caller after DPL (SHARE requirement SSCICS11013)

CICS should return the region/sysid/applid where the DPL request actually ran to the caller. Debugging and diagnositics will become much easier, especially in large shops that have dozens or even hundreds of AOR regions. The SYSID could be provide...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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