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Running the DFHWS2LS utility to generate a requester Web Service using the Java Cache Sharing parameter generates errors:

Will this be corrected in the future (i.e., either remove Java cache sharing from CWA scripts or correct the errors sharing causes).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Is a defect

Warm rollback of CICS version

We need the information written in CICS catalog to be stored in such a format, regardless of CICS version in use, that alloes the version rollback and the protected resources backout.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

DFHJUP step completes with a code zero although DFHLG0192 error message

When running the DFHJUP utility with OPTION PRINT and selecting a time which is not present in the logstream you end up with the following error messages: DFHLG0192 ERROR IN MVS LOGGER MACRO IXGBRWSE FOR REQUEST START SEARCH MVS LOGGER CODES X'000...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

XPLINK enabled version of the C Socket Library belonging to the IP CICS Socket Interface (part of z/OS Communications Server)

Would you mind considering to supply an XPLINK enabled version of the C Socket Library included in the IP CICS Socket Interface (part of z/OS Communications Server)?And could you please update the CICS Socket Interface documentation by adding a no...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CPSM to display CICS completed task in user local time instead of GMT time.

Now CICSPLEX SM always showed CICS completed task stop time in GMT instead of user's local time in HISTORY VIEW. It caused inconvenience to user. I wish you would set up a new parameter in CPSM for users to choose GMT or local time for CICS comple...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Problem with recursion when generating a CICS web services from WSDL (top-down)

Recursion problem: While using Enterprise service tools (in RDz) to generate a web service in top-down mode from a WSDL that has been generated using Rational Software Architecture and is based on the IAA services models, we receive a recursion er...
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...
about 13 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 ...
about 13 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...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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