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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.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Add ability to pass settings for System SSL environment variables

Due to an ever changing security landscape, we need the ability within CICS to be able to set environment variables for the instance of System SSL running within the regions. This will allow us to control all aspects of the security requirements t...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add policy for JVM status

Many resources can be monitored via policies, but not a JVM. Please add the "JVM enable status" to the list of possible system policy rules
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enable options to add Stack affinity at URIMAP when usage is define as Client

As per the current setup, we need to define stack affinity in CICS region JCL to make CICS region to use only a particular TCPIP in case URIMAP usage is defined as CLIENT. This setup is restricting CICS not to use other TCPIPs in case of multiple ...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

make program EYU9XSTR Threadsafe,

We are trying to reduce Threadsafe TCB swapping; we are QR TCB constrained. In trace I notice that EYU9XSTR causes a TCB SWAP L8 to QR; see trace below, I notice an old RFE from Circa '18 to have this done; was not considered at that time; I'd lik...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS should shutdown when its initiated via EXCI program that issues a PERFORM SHUTDOWN

CBAC product could be made more useful to customers.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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 ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS region id and CICS default id should not be same .

Hi , In CICS We will have CICS REGION id and CICS Default id and, both id should be used differently , and Security access also have to be different. in current scenario in SIT DFLTUSER={CICSUSER|userid} , if we code DFLTUSER=CICREGID ( where DFLT...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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