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Remove the requirement for a transid to be specified so programs can be routed

Programs cannot be routed by CICS by their name alone. A transaction ID that can be routed also has to be specified. This restriction in some cases forces the use of a customised routing program to route programs dynamically.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Event Processing adapter write to USS file

Provide a CICS Event Processing adapter to write to USS files
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS INQUIRE SPI for CICS module PTF LEVEL

Provide a CICS TS SPI INQUIRE CICSMOD command for CICS modules. SPI should return fields: MODNAME(char_8)ENTRYPOINT(ptr_31)LOADPOINT(ptr_31)CSECT(char_8)RELEASE(char_4)MAINTLEVEL(char_7) (may contain PTF, FMID, APAR, or USERMOD)COMPILEDATE(mm/dd/y...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Support additional Security Algorithms in WSSE, i.e. SHA256

WSSE can sign a message by adding a digital signature. The current algrithms are limited to DSA-SHA1 and RSA-SHA1, but there are several others, which provide higher security, i.e. SHA2. The same applies to the encryption parameters, which support...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance AFCI/AFCY to indicate holder of resource

Enhance the AFCI/AFCY transaction abends to indicate what task was holding the resource. This could be done by dumping (not abending) the holding task or at least producing a message showing what the holding task was.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Event Capture support for EXEC SQL call

Now the event capture in application program only support the EXEC CICS API, for example PROGRAM INIT or PROGRAM LINK, the data we capture in this level, maybe some raw data that not handled yet, and this is not what we want. And the final data th...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

CICS DUMP with ABCODE of x'40' or x'00'

We have a bunch of applications that don't code their EXEC CICS ABEND ABCODE(WS-CODE) correctly; they are initializing the ABCODE field with spaces or not initializing at all. I was interested in changing the abend code from x'00' or x'40' to some...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

Convert the EYU9XSTR Exit to be Threadsafe
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

WOLA BBOC CSD Ressource

Using the WOLA interface is quite difficult and does not allow the use of dynamic changes in a running system. e.g. One is forced to use BBOC STOP_SRVR and then the corresponding BBOC START_SRVR (with all parameters). This has quite a few disadvan...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Report CICS JVMServer GC CPU usage

FI  would like CICS to report the CPU cost of Garbage Collection in addition to the elapsed time.This could be added to the JVM server statistics if this is made available for the JVM as an MXBean field.Migrated from FITS MR0704115122
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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