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Integrate DFHWS2LS, DFHLS2WS better into z/OS

Currently, the JCL procedures DFHWS2LS and DFHLS2WS are rather unflexible, for several reasons:- They assume a certain naming convention that is not the same across all installations- The input files for the tools must reside in z/OS Unix files; t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Return Code Propagation

We require that CICS propagate full abend code details to the CICS Transaction Gateway when connected using the IPIC protocol. Currently some abend codes, such as AKCC, are not provided to the Transaction Gateway and thus cannot be passed back to ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CECI transaction ability to view SET storage.

The CECI transaction is useless, in general, for those CICS commands which do not provide an INTO(data-area) option, but only a SET(ptr-ref) option. For example, currently, there is no way within CECI to display the storage at the address returned...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Handling expiration times on E.C. START TRANSID (GSE Requirement GGCIC11009)

As described in Application Programming Guide, CICS handles expiration time in a strange way: "If you specify a task to start at any time within the previous six hours, it starts immediately." In other words: before execution of command E.C. START...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHWS2LS: Allow combination of (choice) with minOccurs (GSE Requirement GGCIC11007)

DFHWS2LS: Allow combination of <choice>,<sequence>, <group>, <all> (schema model groups) with minOccurs and maxOccurs attribute not = 0 or 1 The CICS web service assistant does not accept minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Type-Processor Group relation needs a Refresh during the ADD Endevor

IN Endevor z/OS , there is a relation between the component type and the processor group . So we can view the list of the different processor groups for the type COBOL for example.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Debugging IMS MPRs with RTEREUS set to YES .

When debugging programs in an IMS MPR environment with RTEREUS set to YES, Debug Tool will initiate once, but not on subsequent instances. This problem was resolved by linking CEEUOPTS with RETEREUS=NO with the application program. However, we dis...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CICS Web services using WMQ transport

Customer wants to be able to use WMQ transport for their CICS Web services fire and forget implementation
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Default processing for favicon.ico

Currently if a browser makes a request for favicon.ico then CICS will issue message DFHWB0730 to indicate web attach processing has encountered an internal error. Also a dump is produced for DFHWB0002 A00CPN A severe error (code X'0505') Customer ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Excessive spurious dumps in CICS

CICS produces an AP0001 dump for exceptions that Language Environment allows a retry operation. These exceptions are treated as non-errors in LE yet they are recorded in CICS and dumps are produced. Excesive abend processingin CICS and dump will c...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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