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Allow for predefined Event Adapter/Adapterset restrictions in CICS region

The ability to force the use of specific Adapters/Adaptersets should be an option to CICS (perhaps through a SIT option or ESM call). This would allow organizations with specific requirements for the controls on Adapters to prebuild approved ones ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically install CICS SVCs and LPA and Linklist modules to an LPAR with CICS running

With CICS TS 5.1 it is possible to dynamically install the CICS SVC i.e. no IPL is required to install the 5.1 SVC. However, this can only be achieved by shutting down any CICS regions running on the LPAR, installing the SVC, LPA and LINKLIST modu...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Ability to close, and require re-entry of credentials to regain access

Within CICS have the ability to close an application, and require re-entry of credentials to regain access
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Ask for CICS file OPEN in Read Update/Write/Del statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when a file is open under CICS in Read/Write CICS open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We woul...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

VSAM RLS files should have a quiescestate of UNQUIESCING

When unquiescing a VSAM/RLS file, we would like an interim state of "UNQUIESCING" that indicates that the unquiesce has been issued but has not yet completed. When used with the SET DSNAME NOWAIT option, the quiescestate returned could erroneously...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Control the number of DFHAP1900 messages

With the CTS 5.1 we have a valuable feature: Log of SPI - activities. But a central application must work with ... taname FEPI SET NODE(AZP050) USERDATA(KN03) RESP... ... the FEPI SET command. With round about 600.000 messages per CICS and day we ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Is a defect

Improve Storage Violation detection

Current CICS storage violation detection is inadequate.Check-zones (even with CSFE CHKSTSK), TRANISO, STGPROT, and SSRANGE only protect some storage.Often, they do not protect against:- An application using storage that it has FREEMAINed- An appli...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS shutdown initiates phaseout of all the JVMSERVERs prior to PLTSD pgm execution.

Running under CICS TS 5.4 with WebSphere Data Interchange (WDI) which provides PLT shutdown program EDIJSTOP. However, CICS is setting the JVMSERVER status to PHASEOUT before passing control to PLTSD pgm, hence EDIJSTOP is unable to run, hence EDI...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Modify DFHLS2WS to support multiple Operations for a single Web Service

We currently write Web Services (programs) to support multiple operations for a single web service. We start with PLI structures and using DFHLS2WS, create the WSDL. But we have to manually merge the 2 or more WSDL documents into a single document...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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