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Provide the JSON source to CICS when running z/OS Connect within a CICS Liberty Profile JVM

The architectural component of our online applications interrogates the data stream passed from various input channels to determine process options based on fields embedded in the message. The message format is variable by service and may contain ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

capacity to control flow between gateway and TOR, TOR and AOR

There are two user scenarios in this RFE,1. flow control between gateway and TOR,Today, there is no obvious way that gateway in front of TOR can know the healthy status of CICS in mainframe and decide how many workload they should send to each TOR...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Set EIBERR if terminal is no longer usable

If a CICS terminal suffers a TERMERR condition and/orsuffers a Terminal Control abend, the manuals say thatthe task must no longer issue TC commands.But there's no mechanism for an application to determinethat the task is in that situation (other ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHCMACD ABEND AEY9 is truncated

The description of abend AEY9 within DFHCMACD (CMAC transaction) is truncated. Service no longer updates DFHCMACD with maintenance so we are requesting this get fixed in the next release.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Display SYSPLEX ENQ status in CICS dump

Add a "Plex" column to NQ domain dumps for EXECPLEX Enqueue pool entries, so that the status of the MVS enqueue is known. The status would depend on the column header, but could be "Wait" or "Own" to indicate that the task is either waiting for th...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

All API Threshold policy

CICS TS V5 already provides a number of threshold policies for types of EXEC CICS commands, eg FC, TS, TD issued by a task. It would be useful to have a policy to control the overall number of EXEC CICS commands, ie any EXEC CICS command
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CPSM WUI filters

It would be nice that when you select an operations link to view resources from the WUI screen that the WUI app would allow to enter a filter before the initial data search. This would also apply to the Explorer product as well.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Possibility to specify the interval of automatic deletion of TSQs

Today CICS cleanup task scans the temporary storage queues in the CICS region and deletes the queues that are eligible for automatic deletion.every 30 minutes . Customer would like to have the possibility to specify this value as a SIT parameter b...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow RLS and non-RLS opens within a CICS Region for the same data set.

We would like to use RLS during the day to update our CICS files. We then must switch the file to read only non-RLS for the batch run. We must have the file opened in read only before closing the file from RLS. Currently CICS does not allow RLS an...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

jcics method datatype container

jcics does not provide a method to determine the datatype of a received Container. documentation suggests that it should. Knowlegde center search for getdatatype lists this as a method available for jcicsalso, ctg appears to support a getType meth...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered