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Consistent case for header names

Please change the capitalization of CICS' REST service header names to match WAS, zOS Connect and most other IBM products. Specific example is the header "content-type: application/json" that many other IBM products and the industry typically have...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

not to flag ASRA and take SVC dump when ON-unit is used to handle error condition in PL/1 program

Client uses ON-unit to handle error condition in their PL/1 CICS program like this:ON FIXEDOVERFLOW BEGIN; FIXED_OUT = 999999999999999; GO TO XX999RF_EXIT; END; CICS should not flag ASRA in the transaction and take SVC dump if user chooses to use ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TS Queue - Logstash offload

In PL/1 we have the problem, that people make "put skip list/data)" and everything is spaming the CEEMSG. Now we want to introduce a PL/1 subroutine equal to log4j, Moving all the output to a TS-QUEUE. It would be great to have the possibility to ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Include DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS support in CICS bundles

I want CICS resource definitions of types DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS to be supported in CICS bundles similar to PROGRAM or URIMAP definitions. I want it to be possible to add DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS definitions to a bundle using Eclipse, to process the...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

AMODE64 and RMODE64 support of C for ABC

ABC production system environment:z/OS v2.1; DB2 v10; CICS TS v5.2The EDSA usage is usually over 80%.ABC has planned to merge the CICS regions for future business, an estimate the EDSA usage will over 95% at that time.But the AMODE64 and RMODE64 d...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Addition details in message ID: EYUXL0033I

When CPSM is going to purge a task at shutdown, it should issue an EXEC CICS INQ TASK(12345) to see if the task has a Principal Facility. And if it does, it should then query that facility with an EXEC CICS INQ TERM(XXXX) in order to get the CONNe...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Create a global user exit for RESETTIME

Desire a global user exit to be invoked when RESETTIME processing occurs. This would enable our product (TMON/CICS) to adjust its handling of time values to match that of CICS. In particular an outstanding WAIT EXTERNAL could be adjusted to operat...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enhance XPCFTCH to overcome PCUE_BRANCH_ADDRESS limitations.

XPCFTCH is given control before an application program is called by CICS.Various products use XPCFTCH to front-end an application program for various reasons.CICS allows for multiple exit programs to be enabled, and each exit program is called in ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHSTUP show only JVMSERVER state: Enabled if CICS is running in the 24H mode.

DFHSTUP shows only JVMSERVER state: Enabled if CICS is running in the 24H mode. Otherwise (e. g. if CICS was terminated before midnight) always JVMSERVER state: Disabled was listed. Even if the JVM server was active during the entire runtime of th...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add SIT parameter ARM=YES/NO to control registering with ARM on startup

During initialization CICS registers with ARM automatically, because CICS needs to know whether it is being restarted by ARM and, if it is, whether or not the restart is with persistent JCL. However, some facilities do not use ARM at all. In this ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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