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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Performance improvements for CICS Webservices Assistant

We use the CICS Webservices Assistant to generate wsdl and wsbind files for legacy mainframe applications. Some of these legacy applications use complex and large structures.This results in complex and large wsdls.Generation of a wsbind for such a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Improve Storage Violation detection

Current CICS storage violation detection is inadequate.Check-zones (even with CSFE CHKSTSK), TRANISO, STGPROT, and SSRANGE only protect some storage.Often, they do not protect against:- An application using storage that it has FREEMAINed- An appli...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Modify DFHLS2WS to support multiple Operations for a single Web Service

We currently write Web Services (programs) to support multiple operations for a single web service. We start with PLI structures and using DFHLS2WS, create the WSDL. But we have to manually merge the 2 or more WSDL documents into a single document...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS shutdown initiates phaseout of all the JVMSERVERs prior to PLTSD pgm execution.

Running under CICS TS 5.4 with WebSphere Data Interchange (WDI) which provides PLT shutdown program EDIJSTOP. However, CICS is setting the JVMSERVER status to PHASEOUT before passing control to PLTSD pgm, hence EDIJSTOP is unable to run, hence EDI...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

DFHPI1008 diagnostic enhancements

Message DFHPI1008 includes some limited diagnostics to help identify the cause of a problem. Additional details would help to pinpoint the specific cause. e.g.==> DFHPI1008 03/01/2014 14:25:36 PRTICICS 00748 XML generation failed because of inc...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Statistcs Report - Please add Total allocates for IRC EXCI Connections

Please add the 'Total Allocates' number field for IRC EXCI connections also like XM/VTAM APPC etc in statistics reports. Currently the field is always zero and not applicable.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS Administrative Interface on mobile device

The CICS Explorer provides a graphical interface for administrating CICS. With all the recent advances with mobile in the last couple of years, it would be good to have a graphical administrative interface that works on mobile devices. Such as iPa...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Color code view tabs to distinguish more easily between operations and definitions

Allow to assign colours to the tabs of views to clearly distinguish between operations and definitions. In the WUI this has not been an issue before because the WUI was not able to access the CSD. Now in CICS Explorer taking the definition view in...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to CMAS to notify other tasks a CICSPlex is being removed

Currently if a CMAS is the processing of removing a CICSPlex other tasks within the CICSPlex are able to determine this before the processing is completed meaning they do not start activities that later fail because the CICSPlex is no longer avail...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration