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"CICSPlex SM resource tables" documentation needs additional information

We had a discussion this morning during the CPSM Community conference call. It was suggested that I submit this through the RFE process..Please update the "CICSPlex SM resource tables" documentation so that more information is given on the real so...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Modify commarea of DYP to contain Invoking program

What the customer is trying to achieve, making routing decisions inside the routing program based on the name of the program that initiated the START request, seems like a perfectly reasonably and valid thing to wantto do. Unfortunately it is not ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS - function to obtain infomation such as CICS Login ID, workstation IP, etc when accessing DB2 z/OS

A CICS published function is needed to obtain information from CICS such as the CICS Login ID, workstation IP address, etc. when the known information is DB2 thread connection information. This would help with security auditing and other functiona...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Allow DataTables Record and Index descriptors to span across multiple dataspaces as the records themseves do.

We have been experiencing abend DFHFC0431.The error gets triggered because we hit the 2GB limitation on the Record and Index Descriptors. We ran into this issue with only a single data table defined in the region (it does have 28 million records)....
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Amend CPSM API Install for FILEDEF to allow override values.

When installing a FILEDEF resource using the CPSM API there is currently no way to override values such as the filename either with a specific parameter or via a RASGNDEF. Whereas using the WUI and installing a FILEDEF an override value is allowed...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 7 Not under consideration

Experiencing SOS in EDSA Storage not releasing

A transaction is a mirror transaction that reads file SRSEVENT. After SOS condition, we see the transaction abending with an AFCI. We are seeing the storage in ECDSA did not free. We were curious why Storage did not free after the transaction aben...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Carriage control requirement

Update CICS TDQ carriage control to write more than once. Please refer to SR 36828,7TD,000 and 90093,7TD,000 for details.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

JSON web services assistant to output messages in user's native language

Update the JSON web services assistant to output messages in the following languages according to the operating system locale: French (fr)German (de)Spanish (es)Italian (it)Turkish (tr)Korean (ko)Japanese (ja)Simplified Chinese (zh)
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add a COBOL GOBACK after the translated code for EXEC CICS RETURN so that COBOL compiler knows end of current program.

Change the CICS translator for COBOL so that it adds GOBACK code after the translated code for EXEC CICS RETURN. This will enable the COBOL compiler to know that this is the end of the current program and can inline called procedures to give bette...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

RFE for Pipeline PRVIDENH corrupted; possible HFS access conflict issue

Overview of the issue : The pipeline is getting disabled when there is a problem copying the configuration file from the HFS directory. (Please refer to the PMR "82719 122 000 " for more details). Enhancement : As suggested per the PMR, we would l...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration