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CICS nees to accomodate various Date and Time scenarios on the same MVS lpar.

Due to our Clients Globalisation expansion requirements, we have CICS Applications that run on a single Mainframe MVS LPAR that now need to accommodate varying Local Time differences, including varying DayLight Saving change Dates/Times, while run...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Can an option be added in TCLASS for timeout value before purging tasks?

Customer relies on TCLASS to prevent transaction jam if necessary. So they defined many TCLASS to control the transaction running. One fact they found now is if the transaction reached the tclass queued number, the tasks will be purged immediately...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS TRANSFORM DATATOXML improvements

EXEC CICS TRANSFORM DATATOXML converts the data passed, managing it as part of an service or atom feed XML message. Customer would appreciate the possiblity to add information in the XML header, like the XML version, so it can be consider like a c...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC START Hung in TOR while AOR is unhealthy

Customer sees issue many times, and has had a long discussion on that, EXEC START is issued from TOR, it's routing to AOR by CPSM WLM. The START command in TOR will be hung if the AOR reach to MXT conditions, or the network disconnected between TO...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Obtain screen buffer to include in transaction dump

For abend generated transaction dumps we use a DFHPEP program which includes an EXEC CICS RECEIVE BUFFER ASIS to obtain the contents of the screen buffer and copy it into task storage so that it is included in the resulting dump.  There's nothing ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Means to Query and Set Global Catalog Contents (SHARE requirement SSCICS11001) ,ent

We want to be able to programmatically schedule CICS initial and cold starts. To do so we need to be able to query and set information in the global catalog CICS uses to manage restart. BUSVAL : 1INVVAL : 4ENDVAL : 1GROVAL : 4SYSVAL : 5KEYWORDS : ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need a new EXEC CICS INQUIRE browse command, or a modification to EXEC CICS INQUIRE UOWENQ browse

Need a new EXEC CICS INQUIRE browse command, or a modification to EXEC CICS INQUIRE UOWENQ browse, to allow a program to quickly find out the owner of and waiters for any resource that can be enqueued upon with EXEC CICS ENQ.Currently, an EXEC CIC...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS CEDX Activated for a specific USERID or TERMID

Customer would have the possibility to activate the CICS CEDX debug facility selecting a specific USERID or TERMID other than the Actual transaction ID. This functionality can help them to debug the activities related to a specific User or Termina...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Grouplist Limitation

Customer has found that they are missing some groups in the Group List because the current limit of the number of lists you can specify on the GRPLIST start-up override is limited to 4.This can cause them some problems and would like CICS to expan...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex Compatibility mode

Ability to configure a CICS environment to allow only CICSPLex compatible API calls. 1) Compiler option to disallow all API calls which are not inherently CICSPlex compliant (e.g. EXEC CICS ADDRESS) 2) SIT parameter option to abend and report any/...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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