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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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...
about 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...
about 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 ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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
about 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 ...
about 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...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable specification of proxy for outbound TCP/IP connections (GSE requirement GGCIC10003)

For outbound TCP/IP connections, i.e. web services or http-connections in most companies a firewall/proxy restricts access to external services. To specify a firewall/proxy in the current implementation an XWBOPEN-exit is needed. Solution does not...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM API : Get CSD DSNAME and BASEDSNAME for DFHCSD for a CMAS

We are using CPSM API to retrieve infaormation about our regions. One of them is the CSD NAME (both DSNAME and BASEDSNAME). Unfortunately, we are not able to do that for the CMAS. It will help us if it was possible. More generally speaking, we can...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHIR3785 CSNC abended

With current design, when message DFHIR3785 is issued, CSNC is abnormally terminated with a system dump. All tasks using MRO links to other systems are abnormally terminated. CICS also abends all tasks in other CICS regions that are currently comm...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Test Message facility

CICS message DFHFC0952 and other messages can vary in length depending on the length of its variable data. The variable data in DFHFC0952 is the "APPLID" and the "file name". When a customers APPLID or file name differ by one character than the DF...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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