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Create CICS API to provide access to the Unix System Services Filesystem (HFS/ZFS)

Need ability to do standard file/directory functions to the USS HFS via an EXEC CICS API available to COBOL and HLASM.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Provide callable service to return text string of EXEC CICS command

The provision of a Callable service which would receive (at least) (i) the address and (ii) length of the Parameter list resulting from the translation of an EXEC CICS command (including the whole of ARG0, (iii) the address and (iv) the length of ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enhance EXEC CICS DELETE...GENERIC with a check option

A programmer must be able to find out how many records are eligible for deletion BEFORE the real deletion takes place. Perhaps a kind of EXEC CICS DELETE ... GENERIC NODATA/NORECS to receive in NUMREC the number of records eligible for deletion. T...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS RECEIVE/RECEIVE MAP API should have a "NOWAIT" option.

It would be most helpful if the CICS API were to support a "NOWAIT" option on all forms of EXEC CICS RECEIVE / RECEIVE MAP, such that if the API is invoked and terminal data are not immediately available, then the command would immediately complet...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

support private File in CICS Application

support private file in CICS application. So I can define file as part of application and use it in multi-version scenarios.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add the Concurrency attribute to the Library RDO resource.

Add the Concurrency attribute to the Library RDO resource. It would have the same meaning and values as Concurrency on the Program definition, except it would apply to all programs loaded from the library. It could also be left blank (which would ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Reuse CEEPIPI enclave during multiple EXEC CICS LINK/RETURNs to/from XPLINK programs within the same CICS task.

Running under 1 CICS task, a Cobol driver program does thousands of EXEC CICS LINKs to a C program (Program1) that is compiled with XPLINK. And each time Program 1 is invoked it does an EXEC CICS LINK to a C program (Program2) that is compiled wit...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Abend Compensation support for Distributed Workloads

Implement CICSPlex SM WLM Abend Compensation support for Distributed (DSRTPGM) Workloads.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM to recognize the unavailability of a Named Counter Server.

CPSM RTA component needs to be enahnced to recognize the unavailability of a Named Counter Server, similar to the way in which TS server unavailability is recognized.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Identifying the requests proccessed by CONL transaction

Following PMR 72808,003,756 we have encountered a bottleneck caused by CONL processing an EXEC CPSM request from an application. We were unable to identify the source transaction, causing inability to identify the source of request sent to CONL.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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