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Sign-On failed message should not provide information if a userid is valid or not

If you enter a wrong userid or password in the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface you receive messages "EYUVC1004E Invalid username. Try again." or"EYUVC1005E Invalid password. Try again." This allows an intruder to identify if the entered userid is v...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Reused L8 TCB causes MQ shutdown stall

Customer is encountering MQ shutdown stall issue when an WMQ task has completed succssfully and the L8 TCB concerned is then subsequently used by another non-WMQ long running task.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

All CICS transaction abends should be written to CICS Performance Monitoring fields (ABCODEO and ABCODEC)

It was discovered that particular CICS transaction abends are not written to the CICS performance monitoring records (e.g. ASP1, ASP7 etc etc). The monitoring fields ABCODEO and ABCODEC remain blank despite the fact that the task got an abend. Thi...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Extend the scope of CICS CPSM "Abend Compensation" to include MQ.

Extend the scope of CICS CPSM Abend-Compensation capability to include application failures due to MQ. Currently CPSM provides Abend-Compensation for DB2 failures when the WLMSPEC "Acceptable level of abend probability" parameter has been setup.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

DFHLS2WS and modification of Xshareclasses name parameter.

When more than one group use DFHLS2WS, the second (and the following ones) get this messages:JVMSHRC022E Error creating shared memory region JVMSHRC336E Port layer error code = -459352 JVMSHRC337E Platform error message: shmctl : EDC5111I Permissi...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

IBM provides certify for CICS skill certification

On behalf of ICBC, I raised the RFE to ask IBM provides CICS technical certify services and certification.It can help CICS customers to certify and manage employee's CICS skill level.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Enhance DFH0STAT for TSPOOL reporting

System: CICS/TSActor: User needing enhanced feature The sample statistics program, DFH0STAT, produces a report showing comprehensive system information about CICS® resources, and an overview of the MVS™ storage in use. Description: DFH0STAT produc...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Expand the number of MQ initiation queues that can be defined and started by CICS

Currently there is only 1 default MQ initiation queue that can be defined and automatically started by CICS. Any additional queues can only be started manually or with automation code. We request the ability to define multiple queues via RDO and h...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Easier Migration path for CICS TS Developer Trial v4.2 to full product

After trialling the CICS TS Developer Trial v4.2 offering, it would be good if there was a simple way of migrating to the full CIC TS v4.2 without having to re-install the entire product.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 9 Delivered

EYUXC0028W message should be witten to CONSOLE as well as to COLG(EYULOG)

This is a critical message and I don't think we should have to rely on inhouse solutions to move this message to the Console to allow our automation tools to pick up and alert on this message.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered