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Additions to DFHJUP and Return Codes

We recently had an incident here when we ended up having "hanging" VSAM linear datasets left over from our online log precessing. We have to save every inbound and outbound message in the NCIC system (for log searching, court cases etc). We curren...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to DFHLS2WS

There is an option for DFHLS2WS (java routine) being WSDLCP. With this option you can specifiy the code page that is used to generate the WSDL document. It is possible to specify EBCDIC-CP-US, UTF-8 and LOCAL. Hond Belgium want to have the possibi...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Test - Please ignore

Please ignore - Cancel this as invalid when seen Testing RFE.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Resource Table ELSIGNAL should be TimeStamped by system

CPSM Resource Table ELSIGNAL is not time-stamped by CPSM, as/when it occurs.Currently the only method of getting an approximate time is using a STCK (converted to local time) once the record is being processed by a CPSM LISTEN/RECEIVE process.Howe...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Creating Multi-part WSDL Add function to the Web Service Assistant (DFHLW2WS) allowing the user to create multi-part WSDL

Title: Creating Multi-part WSDL Add functionality to the Web Service Assistant (DFHLW2WS) allowing the user to create multi-part WSDL. Current implementation of the Web Services Assistant generates a monolithic WSDL, meaning the WSDL that is gener...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Request to amend CICS compiler to detect undesirable (in HA) commands prior to allowing linkediting.

Certain parts of the CICS API are undesirable in a high-availability environment, for example, those creating region affinities, such as ADDRESS CWA and some enqueues. I would like to see the integrated compiler return an unique non-zero code such...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS WS2LS support for Datapower

UBS needs a simple and automated creation of the required DataPower artifacts out of WSDL in thw same step as creating the copybooks and WSBIND file. The mapping between WSDL and the copybook is always 1:1 .
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Option to populate PA Group Definitions from CICSPlex SM groups

CICS PA should have a mechanism to obtain the region ids that are in CICSPlex groups and populate them into CICS PA's Group definitions (Option 1.3 or 6.2). Currently customers have to manually extract the regions ids from the CICSPlex groups and ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Locks missing from "DFH" CSD groups

As discussed in ETR Record 18196,999,616. There are six CICS supplied DFH-prefixed groups in CICS TS 320 for which there is no lock record:DFH$SOT DFHCBTS DFHDCTG DFHIPECI DFHRP DFHRPCF There are four CICS supplied DFH-prefixed groups in CICS TS 4...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration