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CICS as a HTTP client, how to use one fixed logical customized IP address for outbound?

The customer has a CICS region acting as a "HTTP client ". It is working as a client and it is doing a HTTP request to an external server. Customer would like a way to access and customize the origin IP address within CICS (acting as client) and s...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

File backout should complete before PLT access

We have a problem with the way in which CICS TS handles the backout of 'in flight' units of work. Our startup PLT contains code that updates a number of VSAM files, this s essential to set up the application subsystem before any user initiated wor...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Produce transaction dump for APCW and ALIG CICS abends

Currently CICS does not produce transaction dumps for these two abend codes. This makes diagnosis very difficult and the customer would like to see transaction dumps produced. The dumps produced for a problem is essential for problem diagnostics a...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow a "disable" or "Out of Service" attribute for TCPIPServices

Please consider adding a "disable" or "out of service" indicator for TCPIPServices, that would indicate that a port should not be opened. Ideally this setting is preserved across cold start.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to specify NONTERMREL on DB2ENTRY

The setting of NONTERMREL has CICS-wide implications for non-terminal tasks. YES increases pathlength. NO causes tasks to hold a thread longer.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS issues hundreds of console messages DFHLD0107I for LPA YES

Customer has one IBM application which requires several load modules be loaded from LPA and are only located in LPA (not in CICS STEPLIB nor DFHRPL concatenations). This requires that we have SIT LPA=YES, which in turn results in hundreds of DFHLD...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Principle Facility is not available when the XXMATT exit is invoked

The DFHXMIQX will not return the facility name and type when invoked within the XXMATT global user exit. In R410 this was possible, but in CICS TS R130it isn't. Yet exits that preceded the XXMATT exit like XZCIN will have access to the principle f...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TRANCLASS for DTRTRAN initiated dynamic transaction routing

User has all transactions defined in the CSD for the TOR . The customer currently uses TRANCLASS to keep the TOR from going into a MAXTASK condition. They really want to use DTRTRAN in the SIT to get rid of all their CEDA definitions in the TOR. T...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Move CICS 'X' Parameters From SIT to RACF

The CICS System Initialization Table (SIT) contains parameters ie. XTRN, XPCT, etc) which tell the region which (if any) classes in th external security manager to use. When the security product is RACF, allow these parameters to be controlled fro...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Control runaway DB2 SQL via CICS transaction runaway parm

Today we have lots of runaway SQL that is initated from CICS transactions and we need to put time limits on these transactions. Since we are threadsafewe feel these transactions should be able to be purged with the CICS runaway transaction that ex...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration