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EXEC CICS ENQ should conform to CICS standards

All the assembler EXEC CICS commands will generate a LENGTH(=AL2(L'FROM_AREA)) for you if you leave the length off, and the area is not a register such as: FROM(0(,R5)) And in every case I have seen where the length doesn't get supplied automatica...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"

From FITS MR0521136959 CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"Changes were made to the 110 records to help with merging the 110s from the TOR, AOR and FOR.  However, apparently one data element was not included in that effort (original ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

xJCL transform utility

As an application developer, if I want to use batch modernization features, I have to manually rewrite all JCLs to xJCL. Can we have any tool/utility to do the batch transformation? Meanwhile, We're using Control-M scheduler, and we have job depen...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DNS validation - access to 'SubjectAlternativeName'

We like to enhance the existing TLS (based on SSL Cert) security with a DNS validation. The ‚SubjectAlternativeName‘ form SSL Cert must be equal to Caller DNS (CICS EXTRACT TCPIP CLIENTNAME).Today the CICS API CICS ‘EXTRACT CERTIFICATE' gives us a...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DTP over IPIC

enhance IPIC to support DTP
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

avoid TCB stealing when CICS start up with traniso=yes

When CICS starts up with transaction isolation=yes, and transaction is defined as threadsafe. It is possible that lots of TCB stealing for transactions run the first time. It affects the performance a lot. Customer think it is a design issue. CICS...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Name counter server on Disaster Recovery Side

Hello,We've been using name counter server in our production systems. We have no problem until we open it on Disaster Recovery side. Currently when we bring up the system from the DR side, first we issue sql query to obtain latest numbers from the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS JOURNAL + EIBAID + EIBCPOSN

We need to be able to journal the EIBAID plus the EIBCPOSN fields to make a sufficient audit trail, without addressing CICS internal control blocks.The best solution will be a new option to the existing DEFINE PROFILE MSGJOURNAL(INP) request to te...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() at specified LEVEL()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN RETURNPROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN INVOKINGPROGRAM() We need the ability to make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() LEVEL() Where LEVEL() is an input-parameter.LEVEL(0) returns the name of the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE PROGRAM() USECOUNT() We need to be able to make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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