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DFHSC2LS - xsd:NonNegativeInteger mapped as string instead of integer in PL/1 and COBOL

We use the CICS XML assistant(DFHSC2LS) to do XML schema to PL/I language conversion. In the XML schema we have a datatype xsd:nonNegativeInteger which is getting converted to Character. Ideally we would expect a conversion to fixed decimal instea...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 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.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

replace SMF record compression in CICS w/zEDC ?

Request that Hursley performance team benchmark ( general purpose ) CPU reductions that may be realized by replacing CICS compression of SMF records with zEDC
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Need MQ shared message consumption to be responsive to CICSplex workload balancing signals

We have two MQ application patterns which are unresponsive to workload balancing. Pattern 1 An application 1) reads a message from a shared MQ queue, 2) starts a new CICS transaction to process the message, and 3) return to step 1. The application...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

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...
almost 9 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.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future 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...
about 10 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...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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