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    Reduce CPSM routing heartbeat in normal mode

    In CPSM WLM (normal mode), the 15-second heartbeat remains the same for over 10 years. With the improvement of z/OS, CICS, other products and hardware (z15), the 15s value of the heartbeat should be revised, aiming to reduce this time, in a config...
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Support of CICS HTTP error response in application/json

    When CISC as an HTTP server receive a web request via TCPIPSERVICE and send an error response (401 basic auth error, 404 no matching urimap definition...), it does so in text/xml, application/soap+xml, or HTML depending on the media type of the re...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Planned for future release

    Having the ability to run different Kafka consumer threads under unique CICS transaction IDs & USERIDs

    We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic.We are causing a CICS task to be bound to the thread to give us better visibility/security/control. We have configured the following in the jvmprofile to enable us ...
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Allow use of CICS Security Discovery tooling without extracted Metadata

    When trying to use the CICS Security tools added to CICS Explorer, nothing can be achieved until an sdd file created by extracting data from RACF. If for any any reason such a file cannot be created, none of the tooling can be used. IMHO, the tool...
    8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    CICS REXX interface support for system programming commands

    The is currently no support in the CICS REXX interface for system programming commands, such as EXEC CICS INQUIRE, SET, etc.
    about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

    Update CEGN transaction to support Password Phrases

    CICS has a sample "Good night" transaction called CEGN that is intended for juse if a region is configured to allow users to be timed out after a period of inactivity. However it only prompts for a password not pass phrase so is not in keeping wit...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    New action type for CICS policies

    Requesting a new action type for CICS policies: The ability to fail a CICS API request with a RESP/RESP2 code that indicates "REQUEST DENIED BY POLICY"
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

    Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

    Update EXCI to set the return code (R15) at termination

    EXCI leaves an unpredictable residual value in Register 15 on exit, which defies all expectations and good coding practices. This behavior is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=considerations-setting-return-code-r15-ter...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

    I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
    almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

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