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Make CELLPOOL Services useable in CICS (GSE requirement DBCICD98020)

Large Quantities of large pieces of storage are right now only maintainable in areas not designed for this. Some Installations have even designed and developed their own dataspace maintenance programs. A full support (preserve of ARegs and support...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Permit CMAS's to interoperate using TCP/IP

CMAS to CMAS links currently have to be defined using VTAM when connecting multiple CICSPlexes together. We want to be able to remove the dependency on VTAM and instead use an IP network.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Distributed Transaction Processing over IP

Permit a large DTP workload to run across an IP based network, without any changes being necessary to the user applications.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Require more than 512 CICS IRC XM LOGONs per SVC per LPAR

The existing limitation in CICS TS V4.2 of 512 CICS IRC XM LOGONs (LACBMAXE) per LPAR is insufficient to host the growing number of regions used by the HSBC development team.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Make COBOL/LE CALL more visible in CICS trace

It can be very difficult to debug CICS transactions that do a number of COBOL/LE CALLs. It would help very much if there was a CICS TRACE entry written when a CALLed program is entered and exited. I am not sure if the TRACE record would be written...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Time used to execute DB2 stored procedure is not reported back to CICS L8 TCB

CPU time reported by CICS *does not* include dependent enclave time. The IEF033I message *does* include dependent enclave time. The dependent enclave time is accumulated in the enclave's ENCB control block, and is then added into the enclave-ownin...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM WUI. Request to optimize the addition or association of some resource definitions.

On the view "CICS system definitions", customer selects a CICS and presses the button "Add to CICS system group". On the next screen, "Add to CICS system group", customer would like to be able to add the CICS system to multiple CICS system groups ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Bind failure in LU62 connection. Both CICS regions with autoconnect= yes and one of them belongs to a VTAM Generic Res group.

Customer has a LU62 connection between two CICS regions in different LPARs with AUTOCONNECT=YES defined on both sides. One of them is a member of a VTAM Generic Resource (VGR) group, but the other CICS region is not. When the initial BIND request ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide ABSTIME format EIB Date/Time in EIB with task start

Provide ABSTIME format date/time at CICS transaction startup along with EIBDATE/EIBTIME. This could eliminate several ASKTIME calls that are issued not only by one or more application programs in a task but also by several of our TRUE/GLUE exits t...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Communication between IMS and CICS Using sunchronous and asynchronous transactions with ISC using TCP/IP

IMS 13 is proposing communicating with CICS using ISC with TCP/IP.Barclays Bank in the UK have a request to change the current design of this to allow both synchronous and asynchronous access.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration