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CICSplex Systems Management (CPSM) needs to respond better to LPAR workload

Need a new capability in CPSM to allow customers to manage WLM importance 1 workloads to a percentage of the LPAR capacity. Importance 1 workloads, such as CICS, perform best when they represent less than 95% of the workload on an LPAR. In our cas...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 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

Additional shutdown option for CPSM

In the event that CPSM cannot be shut down and requires an IPL it would be good to have the option to try to avoid that. So maybe some sort of Force Terminate utility option - accepting it could not be guaranteed to work in every scenario, just so...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

WEB SEND should allow options to be provided with values indicating the option is to be ignored

EXEC CICS WEB SEND should be enhanced allow all options to be provided as long as all of the options are set to values such that they do not conflict with one another. This would allow a single "WEB SEND" command to be used where some of the optio...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Support for SHA256

The capabilities that CICS WS-Security requires are; - Full support for <wsu:Timestamp> elements, specifically creating them on outbound messages. - Support SHA256 as a signature algorithm - Support signing of individual elements, specifical...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICSPLEX Systems Manager (CPSM) Web User Interface (WUI) Security for Shutdown of Regions

Shutting down an LMAS (a cics region) via the WMAS (Web User Interface CICS Region) , no Userid is captured in logs to say who shutdown the CICS region. The default User ID of the CICS region being shut down is captured in the logs. Audit requirem...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 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

CECI equivalent fo CPSM APIs

We have a few CICS programs that make use of CPSM API calls. It would be beneficial to have a CECI-like transaction for use with CPSM API calls. (Refer to SR 02426,082,000)
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Read/Write to a HFS (or zFS) file from CICS in a API

To natively read and write to a USS member in a HFS or ZFS file in CICS using a EXEC CICS API. These files should be dynamically allocated when invoked. This would allow a programmer to read a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file (or any other type of fil...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

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