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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Enhance Bundle-Deployment with CICS explorer

When developing Java applications for CICS, at the end a bundle must be exported to z/FS. The export will occur with mode fields 750, which means in most cases, that CICS is not allowed to read the bundle directory and its resources.It might be ve...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Include Summary Data in CICS requested dumps when more than one address space

The CICS documentation states that the CICS Dump exit will always produce a dump summary - see: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=dfhpd720-dump-summary-error-index but formatting a recent series of LG0772 dumps from a logger issue at 5...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Allow TCPIPService definition in CICS to be AT-TLS Aware (Retrofit from CICSTS V53)

I would like CICSTS v51 to have retro-fitted from CICSTS v53 the AT-TLS aware mode :- AT-TLS Aware mode is where the address space issues an AT-TLS calls to query a socket for its AT-TLS status. The address space can access items such as the clien...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic ICVR setting if using Debug Tool

Increase or disable ICVR (runaway task) for transactions running under Debug Tool.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS - xsd:NonNegativeInteger mapped as string instead of integer in PL/1 and COBOL

We use the CICS XML assistant(DFHSC2LS) to do XML schema to PL/I language conversion. In the XML schema we have a datatype xsd:nonNegativeInteger which is getting converted to Character. Ideally we would expect a conversion to fixed decimal instea...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS to fully support encoded http messages

We are running a CICS Provider Web service. We need to compress the response. We have a transport handler which takes the response in DFHRESPONSE, zips the content into another container using a Java program, sets the http header Content-Type and ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Propagate original Userid from CPSM interface / CICS Explorer (GSE requirement GGCIC10006)

Changes made through CICS explorer (CE) or the CPSM WUI are executed in the target region using the CICS region Userid rather than the original Userid.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Remove NEWCOPY requirement from RDO Dynamic LIBRARY changes

Remove the need to do NEWCOPY of programs or a region recycle when a new LIBRARY def is added or an existing one is changed.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Auto refresh for CICS Explorer displays

For various displays on CICS Explorer, e.g. alerts, running regions, current tasks, I'd like to be able to get the display to automatically refresh at a set interval, in the same way as you can in CPSM and MQ Explorer.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Improve doc about CICS TS start up and shut down

Client feedback indicates that the documentation about CICS start up and shutdown is not clear and it occurs in multiple places in the Knowledge Center and is conflicting in these different places.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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