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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...
almost 2 years 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 ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

CICS manual states that ASKTIME function cannot be used with NUMPROC(PFD) compiler option.This is because ASKTIME sets a F as final byte in signed EIBTIME, instead of a correct C. PMR and RFE to the CICS team, to get a fix for this are rejected, a...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Update CICS WS Security to allow stronger signatures

update CICS Transaction Server to allow stronger signatures
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Improve doc about CICS TS start up and shut down

Client feedback indicates that the documentation about CICS start up and shutdown is not clear and it occurs in multiple places in the Knowledge Center and is conflicting in these different places.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

UCD passticket support for CICS

The CICS TS plugin for UCD should support usage of pass tickets for all steps, such as CICS PIPELINE SCAN.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Not under consideration

CICS Event Consumer (formerly support pac CA1Y) should be included with CICS

I believe that the CICS Event Consumer package (formerly the CA1Y support pac) that can be obtained from GITHUB at this URLhttps://github.com/cicsdev/cics-event-consumerShould be included with and shipped with CICS/TS, perhaps in *.SDFHSAMP.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Provide a capability for DFHLS2WS to control optional fields

DFHLS2WS and DFHLS2SC generate all fields as mandatory fields. It might be helpful to have an option, which controls this behaviour. This will make it much easier to develop applications from existing structures.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) - Greater Permission Granularity

Currently the CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) rules are limited with respect to CPSM WLM Resource Administration. The OPERATE CPSM ESM group already allows you to break access down by Type (ie: CONNECT, PROGRAM, etc.) The use case below, contains an e...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

RSA/SHA256 support for digital signing in CICS web services

We would like CICS web services to be able to digitally sign a soap message or xml fragment using RSA SHA-256
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration