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Add support for transaction class in CICS bundles

CICS bundles support resource definitions like urimaps and transactions. This request is to also support a transaction class.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Report an error when 'GENERATED_XML_DATA' is passed not supported hex values

The reply data from the business application, if it contains like x'05' the process ‘GENERATED_XML_DATA' does not return the business data in the output part nor is an error reported.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

CICS should support Product Registration via IFAPRDXX

Customer would like to disable or enable CICS/TS execution on a specific LPAR using IFAPRDXX
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic timeout value CICS Web Service

Pass timeout value to pipeline dynamically to control the time max used to conduct the business application part of the web service. (dtimeout)
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS ECI request: TPNName should not override TranName when both informed

TPNName should not override TranName when both informed on an CICS ECI request
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

CICS Web Services - Invalid Data Substutition in CTS Pipeline Handlers

Whilst CICS Web Services has made many legacy applications available to new applications and SOA based services - many of these applications either include data items which require conversion of masking (i.e. use of CDATA etc) or are populated fro...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Multiple values for GRNAME SIT Parameter

Option to provide multiple values for GRNAME SIT parameter instead of just one.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Platform Versioning

We just installed a Platform in the System Aproval Test Environment. Afterwards we tried to make some changes and this was not really funny. First we had to disable all Applicaiton, then we had to disable the platform and other not really nice thi...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS command needed to verify "SHARED" storage addresses

A need to validate a "SHARED" storage address currently forces us to verify the address using SM domain's SCA and SCE control blocks. Our goal is to eliminate the needed to chase Storage control block SCE chains to validate a SHARED storage addres...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Support for VSAM RLS via file name

Problem: Currently RLS commands such as QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE are implemented via reference to the dsname rather than the abstracted CICS filename. This forces a re-think and re-write of some customer utility programs, data and methods and falls s...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration