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    CICS T/S Named Counter services - externalize the actual name of the Named Counter within statistics

    CICS provides detailed Named Counter Pool statistics but it should also externalize the actual names of the Named Counters using the pool along with detailed usage for each counter. I'm told by IBM that CFRTRFLD in DFHNCCF has the Named Counter na...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

    Add support for using HTTP-Headers in WS Pipeline

    Currently we do not have an official way to specify a http-Header in an outbound web service. The way to specify this as an extension to the soapaction-header is no official way.Please provide an API
    about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    add INQUIRE SOAPFAULT to SPI

    If a web services is invoking which throws a soap fault, the aoplication has to deal with the XML. It might be much easier, if the application will get the notification that there is a soap fault and gets the data with INQUIRE SOAPFAULT
    over 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

    The ability for opening multiple host connections concurrently

    We often need to connect multiple host environments concurrently in daily job. z/os connect does not have this ability. If we want to connect another host via cmci or cicsplex SM connection we automatically get logged out from the existing one.
    over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

    Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

    Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    CICS System Policy to Monitor Transaction Rate

    CICS System Policy to handle the region Transaction Rate. If the Transaction rate exceeds certain threshold value(s) then alert.
    over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

    Enhance CECI to show CVDA text value

    Enhance CECI to be able to show the CVDA text instead of only the numeric value. I can see 2 methods of achieving this:1) Extend the functionality of PF2 to cycle through DEC -> HEX -> CVDA....2) Use the 'undefined' PF12 to switch between cu...
    over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU6.2 to TCP/IP

    Please enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU62 sessions to TCP/IP (for those cases where the following DTP Commands are used): EXEC CICS® ALLOCATE EXEC CICS CONNECT PROCESS EXEC CICS CONVERSE CONVID EXEC CICS CONVERSE SESSION EXEC CICS SEND SES...
    over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

    Limit the amount for outgoing parallel connections via URIMAP

    For each implementation of connection pooling in other systems, also in the distributed world, you are capable to limit the amount of parallel connections. This is something we would like to use for the connection pool of an URIMAP. The requiremen...
    over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Keep track of DFHCSD and BAS changes not only on JESJOBS sysout but also on the repository itself for future investigation

    when the cics resources are changed or excluded the messages are displayed only at the jesjobs sysouts and it is missed after a cics recycle, becoming impossible to track the before image.
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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