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    Display CICS Liberty JNDI entries via CICS Explorer/AdminCentre or some other way

    We are running Liberty in CICS.Our JNDI entries are built using a number of environmental variables and it would be extremely useful to be able to easily display the JNDI entries and the parameters which have been installed. Just as we can current...
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    DFHSIT: Provide utility for converting back to source values

    It would be useful to have a way of reverting an assembled, link-edited DFHSIT back to the assembler source/supplied values. I am trying to create a service asset to validate that a) an LPAR is ready to run CICS, and b) a given CICS is ready to ru...
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - Conditional compilation variables containing the names of the current Division, Section, and Paragraph

    Hi, We would like to have conditional compilation variables containing the current Division, Section, and Paragraph names at compile time: IGY-DIVISION-NAME, (force name to uppercase, default is space if before ID DIVISION) IGY-SECTION-NAME, (...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL - SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph endpoint handling

    Hi, The reference documentation for the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph states that the period is optional if no clause is present in that paragraph. This implies that the period is accepted in the absence of any clause in the paragraph: SPECIAL-NAMES par...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

    Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Add SYSPLEX name to CP/SM resource table CICSRGN

    MVSSYSNAME and MVSSYSID are already there. Also make available in CICS Explorer and CPSM rest api
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    Have the ability to control the maximum number of concurrent KAFKA messages to be processed

    We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic. After an outage, 100s of Kafka messages are flooding into CICS to be processed at the same time. This has the potential to cause all sort of issues for this servic...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

    EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

    For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
    almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    Add an utility or a message code to make CEDA alter messages manageable to be sent to SYSLOG

    We were looking into a way of tracking any changes done (specially in CEMT and CECI) parameters using CEDA. To guarantee that their parameters are only updated through change records, and alerting if the transaction (or any other resource) paramet...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    COBOL DISPLAY prefixed by program-id - compile option

    If COBOL developers make DISPLAY in CICS and do not ensure that the DISPLAY-text contains a unique identifier, it can be very difficult to find the programs, that make the DISPLAYs and a lot of parallel DISPLAYs can be a serious performance proble...
    over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

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