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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

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 ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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

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...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS intraregion JVM Server balancing

CICS should provide with a built-in intraregion JVM Server balancing mechanism to improve CICS Java applications availability
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Client connectivity into CICS UMDTs and TSQs

We use UMDTs (Data tables) and TSQs in CICS as data stores. However, these can only be accessed by a program running in CICS. We requests that non-mainframe applications can access these data stores (UMDTs and TSQs) without requiring an applicatio...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHLS2WS needs to support new COBOL standards that allow to leave out FILLERs

Newer COBOL compilers allow that FILLERs don't have to be specified explicitely any more. But these structures fail when fed into DFHLS2WS. e.g. 01 REQUEST. 10 PIC X(08). 10 FELD1 PIC X(08). 10 FILLER PIC X(08). 10 FELD2 PIC X(08).and 01 REQUEST. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

More precisely SOAP fault text - Internal Server Error

If CICS receives a webservice request and a handler in the service provider pipeline initializes container DFHWS-USERID with a userID, that has been revoked by RACF, CICS returns a SOAP fault text 'Internal Server Error' to the service requester. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

New API EXEC CICS RUN TRANID for the CTS 5.4 with the existing terminal environment

We are strictly bound to an existing terminal (TCTTE - entry). The new API is interesting but worthless without TCTTE.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CMCI / CICS Explorer MASQRYER support similar to WUI capabilites

When the explorer issues a request that has issues because one or more of the systems within the scope does not reply back within the timeout period, CMCI and the CICS Explorer will provide the information from the MAQRYER records for naming the n...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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