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Provide a capability for DFHLS2WS to control optional fields

DFHLS2WS and DFHLS2SC generate all fields as mandatory fields. It might be helpful to have an option, which controls this behaviour. This will make it much easier to develop applications from existing structures.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Additional shutdown option for CPSM

In the event that CPSM cannot be shut down and requires an IPL it would be good to have the option to try to avoid that. So maybe some sort of Force Terminate utility option - accepting it could not be guaranteed to work in every scenario, just so...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

WEB SEND should allow options to be provided with values indicating the option is to be ignored

EXEC CICS WEB SEND should be enhanced allow all options to be provided as long as all of the options are set to values such that they do not conflict with one another. This would allow a single "WEB SEND" command to be used where some of the optio...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Read/Write to a HFS (or zFS) file from CICS in a API

To natively read and write to a USS member in a HFS or ZFS file in CICS using a EXEC CICS API. These files should be dynamically allocated when invoked. This would allow a programmer to read a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file (or any other type of fil...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CECI equivalent fo CPSM APIs

We have a few CICS programs that make use of CPSM API calls. It would be beneficial to have a CECI-like transaction for use with CPSM API calls. (Refer to SR 02426,082,000)
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Inquire Details of Autoinstallmodel terminals or Typeterm

With 'CEMT i AUTI' you can see a list of Autoinstallterminalmodels or Typterms, but you cannot look to further details as other resources like files oder terminals. If you type on the line a command like ? or Enter, you don't see any further Detai...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) - Greater Permission Granularity

Currently the CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) rules are limited with respect to CPSM WLM Resource Administration. The OPERATE CPSM ESM group already allows you to break access down by Type (ie: CONNECT, PROGRAM, etc.) The use case below, contains an e...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

RSA/SHA256 support for digital signing in CICS web services

We would like CICS web services to be able to digitally sign a soap message or xml fragment using RSA SHA-256
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Increase User Limit of 512 for Recoverable CFDT

We have a proprietary CICS dynamic transaction routing exit that uses a recoverable CFDT for managing its routing data. There is currently a CICS limit of 512 regions that can connect to a recoverable CFDT. During our busy processing season, we ne...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS EXIT POINT to INTERCEPT or ALTER userid

We are running CICS TS 5.2. We have an issue that some of our application transactions are being initiated without supplying a user ID, therefore CICS region userid or CICS default user id is used for those transactions. This is not compliant to o...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration