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There is no CICS API/SPI or command to display the AID chain.

Provide a API/SPI similar to the INQUIRE TSQ and DELELTEQ TS for AIDs. The INQUIRE function should return the Trans, Term, Term Status, Owning System, AID Type, Request ID, AID address and Age of the AID. The DELETE or CANCEL function should allow...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Option to prevent DYNAMIC programs from running locally

Allow an option on a program definition to prevent a dynamically routed program from running locally if there is an error.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

BUNDLE SCAN function(like PIPELINE SCAN) and Version management

We want BUNDLE can work as the PIPELINE, which is, the bundledir can contain several .zip files(each contains a single BUNDLE definition), and the install of the bundledir can pickup all the .zip files, just like the PIPELINE SCAN function. BOCOM ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Customer wants both high availability and balance when CICS connects to DB2 group

System: CICS connects to DB2Actor: User needing support for both HA and WLM when cics connects to DB2 group. Description: We want to specify both DB2 member name and group name in CICS DB2CONN, when the first time connect, CICS will try to connect...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Integrate CPSM in the standard CICS without additional address spaces and libraries with a graphical and 3270 user interface

Integrate IBM's CPSM into the Standard - CICS without additional (CICS) address spaces and libraries with a graphical AND a 3270 user interface IBM's CPSM, a relict written by Bool & Babbage (?) in the 1990s, will be integrated contemporary in...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Display transaction id in wait ICE

Can transaction name be seen if the ICE represents an EXEC CICS DELAY or an EXEC CICS POST? Now, if the ICE represents an EXEC CICS START it will have the name of the transaction to start. There is no transaction to start so there is no transactio...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

enable CICS to gradually degrade task priority

The ability to enable CICS to gradually degrade the priority of a task during the course of its execution,
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Generate CMF Records from CPSM RTA Events

I would like to see the CPSM RTA event notification (messages EYUPN0005W through EYUPN0013W) generate related SMF records via CMF so they could subsequently be processed by the exception report built into the CICS Performance Analyzer product, or ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Run JAVA user programs in the USER-Key and NOT in the CICS-Key.

Run JAVA user programs in the USER-Key and NOT in the CICS-Key.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Enhance EP support to include "implicitly referenced" API fields as well as API calls performed by mirror program

Current EP behavior:1. Currently, the Event Processing (EP) actual event supported fields are only those fields which have explicitly referenced in the CICS API call.Other API data which are not part of the API call are not available to the EP Ada...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration