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Improve DFHZC3400 (chain size exceeded) message

If VTAM presents CICS with a chain that is larger than CICS is configured to handle (IOARELEN value 2) thenCICS issues error message DFHZC3400.The message tells the user that the problem has occurred, but doesn't give two vital pieces of informati...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve second failure data capture

Currently, when the IBM (and probably ISV) support centresneed to gather more documentation, they often go througha typical list of things that they want set.The customer then needs to implement those changes, recreate the problem and then reset t...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Web Support - change to include an option in WEB CONVERSE command to change the escaped to unescaped form.

CICS is receiving from a web application a HTTP request, that CICS is sending to a remote server. Then, CICS receives the reply and return the data to the web application. Now, application program is using WEB CONVERSE to send and receive the data...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Mirror transaction AutoInstall

Customer requests autoinstall because they don't want define their own mirror transactions one by one.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

W3C SOAP/JMS with CICS Webservices

CICS TS doesnot support the actual W3C SOAP/JMS specs
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Integrate DFHWS2LS, DFHLS2WS better into z/OS

Currently, the JCL procedures DFHWS2LS and DFHLS2WS are rather unflexible, for several reasons:- They assume a certain naming convention that is not the same across all installations- The input files for the tools must reside in z/OS Unix files; t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Return Code Propagation

We require that CICS propagate full abend code details to the CICS Transaction Gateway when connected using the IPIC protocol. Currently some abend codes, such as AKCC, are not provided to the Transaction Gateway and thus cannot be passed back to ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CECI transaction ability to view SET storage.

The CECI transaction is useless, in general, for those CICS commands which do not provide an INTO(data-area) option, but only a SET(ptr-ref) option. For example, currently, there is no way within CECI to display the storage at the address returned...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Handling expiration times on E.C. START TRANSID (GSE Requirement GGCIC11009)

As described in Application Programming Guide, CICS handles expiration time in a strange way: "If you specify a task to start at any time within the previous six hours, it starts immediately." In other words: before execution of command E.C. START...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHWS2LS: Allow combination of (choice) with minOccurs (GSE Requirement GGCIC11007)

DFHWS2LS: Allow combination of <choice>,<sequence>, <group>, <all> (schema model groups) with minOccurs and maxOccurs attribute not = 0 or 1 The CICS web service assistant does not accept minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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