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Dynamic change of CCSID on CICS Web Services

Dynamic change CCSID on CICS Web service to use same CICS Web service for more code pages in same CICS region.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Debug Tool CICS Storage Use Reporting

Often when application programmers are testing, Debug Tool will use more storage, as is documented. Since the SIT overrides code EDSALIM=nnnM, the region will occasionally go SOS. It would be nice to have a method to determine how much extra stora...
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Auto install Web Service in CICS at first invocation

Auto install of web service in CICS first time it is invoked to avoid all Web Services to be installed at start of CICS.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex wide support TRANCLASS

TRANCLASS definitions should be able to be defined as CICSPlex wide, rather than only region wide. This would ensure that the MAXACTIVE value is for the entire CICSPlex.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request CICS Web services dynamic pas language PL/1 or Cobol

Web service request Web Services are either PL/1 or cobol. Enhance to pas the language dynamically to allow one Web Service to handle both.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Concatenate LPAR specific DSN in front of SEQATLIB

We are a large shop where we have the Debug tool set up in over 100 test regions. The test regions are on over 20 lpars. There is one IBM Debug SMPE environment for all lpars. Maintenance for the Debug Tool is shipped from this central site and in...
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Allow URIMAP endpoint overlay with pooling capability intact

The pooling feature of URIMAPs is highly efficient compaired to no-reuse of threads in Cics webservices. Having many different webservices being called FROM cics we would not be able to benefit from the pooling capability - unless Cics could open ...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

SOAP and conversion services errors using EBCDIC in Cics

All the possible code point coming in from i.e. Datapower in UTF8 can't be supported in Cics. The un-supported code points will be converted to x'3F' via conversion services by default. If a round trip of x'3F' is made then it will by default be c...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SQL to DLI call translation view in hex

I'd like to ask for a product enhancement. On the “SQL to DL/I Call Translation” can you show the hex values? When someone is doing an insert or delete with a partially qualified key you can't tell if the SSA is using blanks or low values. I also ...
about 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

properties view keeps the values of the lastly opened program when

Hello,we from PKS Software do support Nuernberger Versicherungsgruppe with RDz. At Nuernberger the developer complain about the problem described in the next paragraph. So we opened PMR as we see this as disfunctionality (see PMR 61775 077 724). B...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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