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Create round-robin algorithm for CPSM routing.

This new routing algorithm would add to the existing [LN]GOAL and [QUEUE]. Allowing, by option of the system management, that the distribution of the routing is perfectly balanced. With the choice of this algorithm, it would be interesting to para...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CPSM - Must be able to recover isolated CMAS without restarting address spaces

Currently, whenever a CMAS becomes isolated for whatever reason it is not possible to restore ("un-isolate") the CMAS without restarting one or more address spaces. Similar situations occur whenever a CMAS/CMAS link (MRO) fails for any reason. Rec...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Webservice should fail on missing required field

Webservice should reject the request if a field, which is marked as required, is not specified on the request.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CCSID as input option to WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER

The HTTP Header value must be in codepage 37 EBCDIC. This is not documented together with the WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER CICS command.As the CICS regions is likely to run with a different codepage it would help if the codepage translation to 37 could be...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Support tolerant reader principle with CICS web services

In various systems the tolerant reader principle as specified by Postel's Law is used as a design principle. Currently CICS will not accept items which are not specified in the current schema of a web service.Please provide a function or parameter...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic acquire for IPIC HA connections

We connected a CICS client in a sysplex to a cluster of TORs in another sysplex with IPIC HA. When one of the TORs fails for any reason, the connection with the other TOR is not automatically acquired. We had to implement an automation routine to ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

New CICSPlex SM routing algorithm

We are not able to manage our online workload in an efficient way by using the CICSPlex SM Sysplex Optimized Workload Routing. If we use QUEUE/LNQUEUE algorithm, performance objectives defined in WLM are not being taken into consideration for rout...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Need to view 64 Bit Storage in CICS CEDF utilities

The various flavours of the CICS Execution Diagnostic Utility (CEDF) allow me to view storage with 31 bit addresses but increasingly I need to be able to view storage with 64 bit addresses. For example a JCICS program placing data in a container w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Extension of NEWC in CICS

We need an extension to CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY. It should be possible that that this command could be restricted to a certain dataset or LIBRARY e.g. CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY DSN('A.B.C') or CEMT SET PROGRAM(*) NEWCOPY LIB(ABC).
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Descriptive wait reasons for tasks waiting in DB2 or IMS

We would like more information exchanged between CICS and DB2/DBCTL about the status of a task that is considered to be "in-db2" or "in-IMS", so that the wait reason for a task in a DB2 or DBCTL call shows what the task is waiting on.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration