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Enhancement to DFHLS2WS

Enhance DFHLS2WS to support PL/I PIC'999' fields for input structures and any style PL/I PIC field for output. At run time, the data mapper should treat the fields as character fields. Right now the developer has to create addtiional structure def...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

Optimize instance number field in DFHJS2LS generated copybook

An option to predetermine the data type of the -num fields generated for optional fields from the input swagger file.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS activation module in DFHISTAR

CICS activation module should be processed in the DFHISTAR step.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS CPSM Timeout

There is a need for additional security in place in these times of cyber attacks became so often. Therefore, according to our IT Security Standards there should be a timeout set for all user sessions. This is meant by any user driven session to an...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Improve Sysplex Distributer / DVIPA routing for CICSplex

Today, a TCP/IP connection request comes to a specific DVIPA definition in TCP/IP and is essentially routed “round robin” across eligible LPARs and CICS regions. We want CPSM to influence which CICS region / LPAR is assigned to new DVIPA connectio...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

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..
almost 8 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 ...
about 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.
over 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...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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