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Collapse trailing space with DFHWS2LS CICS Web Services Assistent option

Rabobank want to remove trailing spaces in the translation of COBYBOOK format response message to xml in CICS web services.The use of collapse white space removes trailing AND leading spaces. This is not what is needed.Can there be an option in DF...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

PTHREAD-INSUFFICIENT-STORAGE when CREATE S8 TCB

Customer recently increased MXT and MAXSSLTCB. Now they have encountered theseDFHSO0002 A severe error (code X'0814') has occurred in module DFHSOSE. The trace shows THREAD-INSUFFICIENT-STORAGE when CREATE S8 TCB78004 SP AP 1939 LEPT *EXC* PTHREAD...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Modify the CICS JSON assistant programs to generate Swagger 2.0 definitions

Modify the CICS JSON assistant programs to generate interface definitions according to the Swagger 2.0 specification (aka OpenAPI specification). Reference https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

DFHSTUP reads from SMF logstreams

We have converted SYS1.MANx to logstreams. It would be nice to have DFHSTUP to read directly from logstreams instead of unloaded SMF data.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Request alternate interface to delete CFDT tables other than via the console

Currently, to delete a CFDT requires console access to issue the "MODIFY cfdt_server, DELETE TABLE=name" command. Console access is highly restricted in our environment. We require an alternate interface to perform this function.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Improve SAMPLIB(DFH$DB2T)

SAMPLIB member SDFHSAMP(DFH$DB2T) is shipped without a column for LIST NAME. The same applies to SDFHSAMP(DFH$SQLT).The tables without a LIST NAME are almost useless. Please add column LISTNAME CHAR(8) to all tables, as well as the LOAD statements...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS 4.2 expansion for sign on userid.

I want to expand for userid longer than 8 characters on the cics transaction server 4.2 sign on screen.What needs to be done.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

GUI based BMS with CICS webservice backend

Is is possible to design a GUI front-end type BMS map and pass data via wsbind/wsdl to a back-end CICS program? The 3270 bridge is limited and not at all pretty.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

WUI times GMT versus LOCAL of HTASK(history task views)

Users can not see into LOCAL time to the start & stop time for tasks at WUI's HTASK views. That is, Users can only see by GMT time.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

cics logger definitions

when cics v3 first came out there was a program dfhlscu which would read the old cics log files and generate the logger definitions for the dfhlog and dfhhunt datasets to use xcf logger, which at that time was dasd only, it also gave recommendatio...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration