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Writing CICS EOD Statistics to a dynamically allocated DDNAME

Would like to write the CICS End-of- Day Statistics to a dynamically allocated DDNAME associated with the CICS region; similar to the way the STAT command writes to a dynamically allocated DDNAME (e.g. S0000001).
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

DFHCSDUP COPY enhancement to CICS V5.2 (retrofit from CICS V5.3)

Retrofit to CICS V5.2 the DFHCSDUP COPY enhancement that has been added to CICS V5.3 which allows copying of a single resource definition from one group to another opposed to having to copy the entire group..
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

DB2 and CICS pre- compilers do not recognize Cobol V5 floating comments

COBOL V5 allows use of "floating comment", sequence space + " * >" followed by a free text. DB2 pre- compiler (tested with DB2 V10) and CICS pre-compiler (tested with CICS TS 4.2) do not recognize this Cobol V5 syntax comment, and the presence ...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Banks Services

This is a request regarding CICSPLEX/SM componect of CICS TS z/OS.In case of 2 CMAS on the same LPAR (same version of product) it's important that when one CMAS is closed,the second CMAS get automatically reconnect to the controlled MAS.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

MWP enhancement to CICS SMF 110 records

IBM are trying to encourage customers to run mobile applications on z/OS by offering software pricing options such as Mobile Workload Pricing. WLM APAR OA47042 added the ability to identify transactions as MOBILE in the WLM classification rules. H...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 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...
about 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
about 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.
about 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