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    Enable CPSM EYU9XLOP as threadsafe in CICS

    Need CPSM routing code (EYU9XLOP) to run threadsafe in routing region
    over 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Bring SupportPac CS04 / wsbind utility into base support

    SupportPac CS04, the wsbind utility, is current as-is and its functionality should be brought into base CICS support and managed between releases.
    over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

    There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record. We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day. There are so many different ...
    about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Allow SCOPE=SYSTEM on sysplex wide ENQ

    Allow the application to control whether a SYSPLEX ENQ call is SCOPE=SYSTEM vs SCOPE=SYSTEMS. This could be on the API call itself, or more likely on the ENQMODEL definition.
    about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

    Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Allow setting USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) in IPCONN without SSL

    We have some SYSPLEX in our Company and we would like to connect CICS regions belonging to different SYSPLEX via IPIC not using SSL, but with the USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) option in order to know the RACF userid that originates the transaction.
    almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    New EXEC SECURITY to get other segment

    For customers that want to have all their business data and user data secured by RACF they have this challenge of putting users attributes in RACF and making making CICS requests to get this information. For example making CICS EXEC request to get...
    6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    STGRCVY=NO should work as documented

    Why is it useful? Abending the victim task of a storage violation is a defence against applications acting upon and/or committing corrupted data. CICS Documentation (all releases) promises "If you specify STGRCVY(NO), CICS abends the task if it is...
    about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    CICS DISPLAY GROUP command: Confirmation should be required on D (delete) command

    A confirmation with Yes or No should be created every time a user tries to delete a resource (transaction, program etc)
    6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Enable options to add Stack affinity at URIMAP when usage is define as Client

    As per the current setup, we need to define stack affinity in CICS region JCL to make CICS region to use only a particular TCPIP in case URIMAP usage is defined as CLIENT. This setup is restricting CICS not to use other TCPIPs in case of multiple ...
    about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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