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Enhance CICS Events to allow computational data as a field type

CICS Events can be further enhanced to provider greater context and guidance around certain conditions. A field type other than field data passed from a system message, static text, or business data may be useful. Such data may be a concatenated s...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Extend the scope of CPSM abend-compensation to include DBCTL.

Extend the scope of CICS CPSM Abend-Compensation capability to include application failures due to DBCTL. Currently CPSM provides Abend-Compensation for only DB2 failures when the WLMSPEC "Acceptable level of abend probability" parameter has been ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

write java log to spool directly without CICS TDQ

currently , customer can redirect java log to spool, but user has to define TDQ and TDQ JCICS call is used. which is inconvenient and performance is bad. Customer want JVMSERVER in CICS can write log to spool directly without CICS TDQ.Customer sai...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enhance CICS Transaction Server Loader Domain Services to detect CICS program release mismatch at product initialization

CICS Transaction Server Loader Domain should be enhanced to detect CICS program release mismatches during product initialization. During domain initialization for the various CICS domains, Loader Domain ACQUIRE_PROGRAM requests for system componen...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Parallel aggregation orchestrated from within CICS.

With LINK, the process is synchronous - the consumer issues a LINK to the provider and the consumer has to wait for the response to be returned. If the business logic of the program requires multiple links (e.g. PGMA LINKs to PGMB then to PGMC etc...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Unable to set Validate on XMLTRANSFORM

CEMT SET XMLTRANSFORM(...) VALIDATION, gets a normal response despite the request failing - no schema specified. This is WAD but the response should be more useful.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Dynamic Dataset Names using &USERID.

I would like to see the use of the &USERID Symbolic expanded to include Data Set Names. As of right now, this Symbolic is in use for StreamNames on JournalModel Resources. For example: JournalName . . DFHLOGStreamName . . LOGR.&USERID..DFH...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

SAF key ring support in CICS/Liberty

Is it possible to add SAF key ring support in CICS / Liberty profile for SSL/ HTTPS traffic... We are in the process of modernizing  our legacy code - CICS socket   - PL/1 BPRs to CICS - LIBERTY - JAVA - PL/1 BPR and having SSL/HTTP...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

provide OFFSET to user through ASSIGN when AEYD, AICA, ASRA, ASRB, and ASRD

currently user can use EXEC CICS ASSIGN to get PSW, abend code, abend program name when AEYD, AICA, ASRA, ASRB, and ASRD.Customer wants CICS also provide offset in EXEC CICS ASSIGN when abend happens
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

record count of transaction abend in transaction resource statistic

In CICS transaction resource statistic, besides total transaction attach count , also record the number of task that terminate abnormally eg abend.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered