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Specify Mirror transid when MQ Bridge DPLs is implemented

When the cics mq bridge is used in DPL mode , the program embedded in the mq message is executed ( generally in a TOR ). If this program is defined as remote ( with dynamic parm set to yes ) , it will be executed in a AOR with the mirror transacti...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

DFHDPLOY More Functionality, i.e. FILE operations in CICS

Working with DFHDPLOY is quite good,makes handling of CICS-manipulation much easier.We currently searching for the Ability to CLOSE / DISABLE a vsam file andOPEN / ENABLE it after reloading.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Expose MQ API options in CICS aux trace

We constantly find ourselves trying to debug MQ related activity in CICS. Many of these issue relate to applications setting MQ options incorrectly, and this happens many times unbeknownst to them. CICS sysprogs also many time do not have access t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CICS ASYNC API - USERID option for RUN TRANSID

The request is to add 'USERID' option to 'RUN TRANSID' CICS async API command to be able to start the child transaction in a different security profile.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Incorrect Cross-reference of data names with CICS integrated translator

The "Cross-reference section" in a COBOL compile listing correctly contains the line number references to the COBOL data items contained in the EXEC CICS statements when the CICS stand-alone translator is used, but does not contain the line number...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

In a resource overrides .yaml file, allow multiple attribute values within a single selector clause to be OR'd.

Currently the logic would seem to support 1 attribute value on a given selector clause. If I have a resource attribute which can have many possible values and I want to trap some set of those values and apply the same override to each one, I have ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration

improve messages from DFH$MOLS job when they encounter "CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED" error.

It is not clear at all from current messages, when customers encounter the good old missing a dictionary record problem, when running the DFH$MOLS job. They get something like: X'019E' - CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED; REPORT IS TERMINATED The reason for t...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

SSL refresh command for CICS Liberty

When a new cert is added to the keyring, we have to manually cycle the jvms for each of our cics regions. We need a way to either automatically update the cert cache for the liberty jvms or run a CICS command to refresh the jvm cert cache.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Docu: username / password restrictions CICS Websupport

„CICS Web Support“ expects a special CCSID for username / password whenusing „EXEC CICS WEB CONVERSE“. We came accross it, when testing with BASIC AUTH and a username including an@-character (e.g. user@xxx.de). When reading mulitple documentations...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Origin Data to be passed for DTP and ASYNC flows

For transaction tracking purposes it is important that a transactions has some information about the parent transaction. The ADCB doesn't have information for DTP transactions and some of the ASYNC flows (e..g START with TERMID). The ORIGIN DATA i...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration