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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)....
over 9 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...
over 9 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...
over 9 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.
over 9 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)
almost 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...
almost 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...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

CICS RDO modification Query(ON)

Typeterm parms Extendedds and highlight force Query(on) even if that particulat setting is NO in the RDO definition
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

BMS Send Map and Receive Map support for CICS Java

BMS Send Map and Receive Map support for CICS Java
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Is it possible during the compile to figure out that the CICS integrated translator is used, but there is no CICS statements

Is it possible during the compile to figure out that the CICS integrated translator is used, but there is no CICS statements in the source? DB2 Integrated translator throwes an error msg, if you compile and the source does not contain DB2-statements.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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