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Support multiple WSBind directories in CSD WSDIR pipeline definition

See RFEs 18047 & 14725, delivered with TS 5.2 through application bundles and application versioning. Our need was not met - there is still a need for concatenation of directories in the WSDIR pipeline CSD/RDO definition, specifically in the t...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

New CICS Start Option to Recover and then shut down

Provide a new CICS start option that would start CICS, connect with all related resource managers (IMS, DB2, MQ, etc.), complete all recovery, and then shutdown without allowing work to start flowing into that CICS. The current CICS startup option...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k

we do have situations where the server do reply http headers area bigger than 4k and in these case we get a 16 INVREQ Resp2=157 from cics instead of running successfully we do have a jwt solution where the signed jwt is 7k and if the server sent t...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Timeout for transactions in TCLASS.

Customer would like to be able to define a timeout for TCLASS to begin to purge tasks (PURGETHRESH) rather than relying only on the number of tasks queued.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Bypass DFHH0414 Health Check for a CMAS

In CICS/TS v6.1 section "Setting up a CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS)" the manual : XCMD=NO : For a CMAS you must specify NO for CICS commands. But after the v6.1 CMAS is started, there is a DFHH0414 message in health check IBMCICS/CICS_REGION_CO...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS REXX interface support for system programming commands

The is currently no support in the CICS REXX interface for system programming commands, such as EXEC CICS INQUIRE, SET, etc.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Provide ability to route all messages to a central storage

In larger CICS installation with WOR, TOR, FOR, AOR etc. it is sometimes difficult to find all information related to a problem or event. If the messages are written to SYSOUT, they can be searched, but need to be archived in an output management ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

IPCONN & Transaction AutoInstall

We have a TOR/AOR configuration. In the AOR we have these parameters in order to not define the mirror transactions that use the application: DSRTPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRTRAN=@MIR If we use an MRO connection and execute this command in the...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks

Enhance the CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks to not be limited to checking only when ESSS is not already running. This would provide a sanity check with applying maintenance that requires ESSS to be terminated and restarted.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Timeout values for CICS Web Support inconsistent

Allow CICS web support calls to specify a timeout value as part of the API call, so that the application can control how long to wait for each request.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration