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CicsTs liberty features in windows and linux

This RFE adresses the developer experience: 1) During development we need to change the maven dependencies in a way not fitting to a normal workflow (for example JCICS Classes). 2) with liberty features for windows and linux we could just take ser...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deployed resource files in Cics Bundle

This RFE adresses the developer experience: We have the need, that a developer wants to deploy extra files to the unix file system related to an application. -> application configuration file-> application resource file-> logging configur...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

OTE, Threadsafe and Concurrency Statistics

As part of our threadsafe project, post execution, we review the changes to the programs' PPT definitions, after defining them as Concurrency: Threadsafe. We use: DFH0STAT, SMF 110 performance data and SYSVIEW. We review a number of statistics. Am...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

cics graphql support

On this years CAF you told us the future of the CMCI interface would be a graphql interface. After some investigations I now clearly see the advantage of this form of requests. So I would like to have a possibility for PL/1 / Cobol to do the same....
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Transport data to remote CICS programs and transactions

I need the ability to pass data to a CICS region when a request is made that results in a request to a remote CICS region within the same system or sysplex. This could include LINK PROGRAM or START TRANSID.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

OAUTH2 for PL/1

We have the need for an OAUTH2 Support for Liberty and PL/1 in Cics. As we talked at the CAF with IBM Montpellier many customers for JSON Web Token is something many customers tend to walk at the moment.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

No multiline message for CWWKZ0001I

No multiline message for CWWKZ0001I
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

A Global User Exit for Program Check Recovery

Can we have a Global User Exit which is driven for program checks in a CICS region, similar to the PROGRAM_CHECK_RECOVERY mechanism which LE uses in its "shunt routines" to test pointers during its CEEDUMP processing. The consumer (probably an IBM...
over 7 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...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CPSM's LNMI tran to handle CMAS shutdown without abending

If a CMAS is shut down while it is updating a partner CMAS (CMAS-to-CMAS link), one of the CMASes will output "Transaction LNMI running program EYU9XLOP term XYZ has failed with abend ASP2." CPSM should be enhanced to handle this disconnection gra...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration