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Make CICS time machine tool support CICS TS 5.1

CICS time machine is a useful and simple to use tool to change date & time within a CICS region.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

DFH0IPCC change to add USERAUTH

The migration utility DFH0IPCC that converts the connection/session definitions to IPIC IPCONN definitions does not created a card for the USERAUTH parameter in the IPCONN define, created from the ATTACHSEC parameter in the connection definition.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

CICS remove banner viewed from HTTP server

Request to remove the CICS 4.2 banner when anyone accesses CICS
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

DFHMQTRU GETMAIN should be in CICSKEY

In the current design, the DFHMQTRU GETMAIN's without specifying CICSKEY or USERKEY option. So the GETMAINed storage is default to the setting in TASKDATAKEY for the transaction. Therefore it is possible that the application would FREEMAIN the DFH...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

CICS tran dump threshold

System: CICS 4.2Actor: CICS programmer CICS currently allows us to set the TRDUMAX system initialization parm to specify the limit on the number of transaction dumps that may be taken per Dump Table entry. Description:Program testing sometimes cau...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Delivered

existing DB2Tran gets deleted when changing an other DB2Entry

Add extra information in CICS InfoCenter, related to the way of working with DB2Entries and DB2Tranids. A single DB2Entry can be pointed to by many DB2Tran definitions. A DB2Entry can wildcard Transids or even explicitly define a Transid. In the c...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

JRIO OPDATA Tracking for DFHLS2WS

IBM Java Record (JRIO) is deprecated as of SDK 6.0.1. No new function will be added to any release of IBM Java Record I/O (JRIO). WSDL creation using pgm=DFHLS2WS creates the tracking instances and Health Checker then flags these alerts.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Allow bundling of web service assistants with company plugin for Eclipse

Please allow and provide license for bundling the following web assistant java jar files with Eclipse plugins that our company creates: /lib/wsdl/dfjwsdl.jar /lib/wsdl/xsd.jar /lib/wsdl/xsd.resources.jar /lib/wsdl/common.jar /lib/wsdl/common.resou...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Support of the CICS V5.1 Trial Product and future ones

We are in the process of doing an IVP for the Trial CICS V5.1 Product and running into issues. I undertstand that the problem might be ours but when bringing up a new product as such , we never know what issues we might run into. When looking for ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 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