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    Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR

    Remove hard coded zFS address from the DFHLS2WS (and associated) scripts
    over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    GMTRAN DISCONNECT Option Expansion

    When using the default CICS signon program, a user is able to clear the screen using ESC and run transactions under the default CICS user ID. Using End/PF3 terminates the session, but clearing the screen using the ESC key does not. We would like t...
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Eliminate the key limitation for CF Data Tables

    CICS limits the key length to 16bytes for CF Data Tables. This limits many of our files(read only kind) not eligible for CFDT. We like IBM to eliminate the key length limitation for the CFDT.
    over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Allow a CWS Web call to specify not to use MASSL

    We have a CICS application calling z/OS Connect and wants to use Basic Auth over SSL. When z/OS Connect receives the requests, it asks CICS for a MASSL cert, and CICS obliges by sending the default cert on the ring, which in his case is not the au...
    almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    make CPSM routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe

    Please make the dynamic routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe.
    almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    CICS record based channel containers/queues

    CICS should support an alternative or enhancement to channel containers that is record based rather than byte based. These would be similar to temporary storage queues, except they would have the same visibility and lifetime rules as any other cha...
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

    CICS Task Policy to handle poison message and MQ Backouts

    CICS Task Policy for MQ Backout Count handle Poison messages. Task Policy for MQ, if Backout Threshold exceeded in the MQMD put the message to the MQ Backout Queue Defined in the MQ Header and Abend Task. If no Backout Queue defined, the task beha...
    almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    INQUIRE TSQNAME for remote TS on TSOR (TSMODEL)

    I need to know if a TS is already used by someone else. TS are routed to another CICS, via a TSMODEL defintion. TS are created in the TSOR. But an INQUIRE TS in the router CICS doesn't INQUIRE the TS list in the routed CICS, but localy.
    almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Make CICS WUI dataset EYUWREP optional

    The documentation at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/configuring/cpsm/eyuadif.html states that the EYUWREP file "contains the Web User Interface server view and menu definitions". I believe this includes any user groups...
    almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    CICS IPIC use of Sysplex Distributor for High Availability and Workload Balancing purposes

    We would like CICS to use Sysplex Distributor to balance workload from a requester region in a SYSPLEX to several server regions in another SYSPLEX over IPIC connections on every transaction execution. Our requirement is similar to RFE 24351 but a...
    almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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