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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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WEB SEND should allow options to be provided with values indicating the option is to be ignored

EXEC CICS WEB SEND should be enhanced allow all options to be provided as long as all of the options are set to values such that they do not conflict with one another. This would allow a single "WEB SEND" command to be used where some of the optio...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Read/Write to a HFS (or zFS) file from CICS in a API

To natively read and write to a USS member in a HFS or ZFS file in CICS using a EXEC CICS API. These files should be dynamically allocated when invoked. This would allow a programmer to read a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file (or any other type of fil...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Mechanism for monitoring CICS storage fragmentation

It would be helpful to have a means of monitoring current storage fragmentation in the CICS DSA (and OSCORE area).
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

CECI equivalent fo CPSM APIs

We have a few CICS programs that make use of CPSM API calls. It would be beneficial to have a CECI-like transaction for use with CPSM API calls. (Refer to SR 02426,082,000)
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Provide batch program to read temporary storage queues

Provide CICS batch utility to browse temporary storage queues.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Mechanism to sysplex Load Balance transaction requests needed to process CICS/MQ messages

Mechanism for sysplex Load Balancing of the number of transaction requests needed to process CICS/MQ messages and the number of applications processing information relating to the transaction requests. A message arriving on the message queue might...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add EXEC CICS JOURNAL as Event Application Capture Point

Add EXEC CICS JOURNAL as an Event Application Capture Point with the journal data available for capture.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need option to copy connections and userids when creating new CICS Explorer workspace

When creating a new work space in CICS explorer, user is given the option to copy the work bench layout and the working sets but not the connections or users meaning that they have to be manually entered again when using the new work space.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CPSM API: A new query function to identify available CMAS's

The CPSM API should support a new query function that could be called prior to any CONNECT operation. This query would scan and locate all active ESSS's on the local LPAR via the z/OS subsystem chain, extracting from each ESSS information about al...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CPSM - various timeout values must be externalized and tunable

CPSM uses various internal timeout values to decide when to take remedial action, such as isolating a CMAS. In environments that may be heavily loaded and/or resource constrained (perhaps intentionally because they are non-production) this can lea...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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