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CICS TS SMTP Support Request

Modification for transactions to make EXEC CICS WEB calls maybe specifying a scheme of SMTP, an address (recipient) and a payload of the message, with the SMTP server being an exit as per XWBOPEN for HTTP.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add Console Journaling for CICS Transactions

The customer was trying to journal the usage of a few CICS Transactions started at the console. One of these is CEMT. They have created a Profile that specifies journaling for input only. The can see that some of the tasks have used CEMT, but they...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Tolerate spaces in SSL certificate name

When using SSL security in CICS, unless you have a default certificate on the KEYRING a certificate must be specified. There is no error at define time if the certificate name contains spaces, but when attempting to install the TCPIP Service CICS ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

DFHRMUTIL and DFHCCUTIL error checking

The DFHRMUTIL (format global catalog) and DFHCCUTIL (format local catalog) utilities need additional checking and feedback. 1. In the event of a problem, both programs currently provide feedback in the SYSPRINT output.. 2. In the event of a succes...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Virtual Storage Constraint Relief from SMODE(24) programs

There are several programs that automatically get a below-the-line stack. When a significant number of tasks invoke these SMODE(24) programs at the same time, CICS can go Short On Storage and not be able to recover. Three of these programs are DFH...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS JSON Assistant Utility

CICS TS 4.1 and 4.2 offer both SOAP and XML assistant utilities. An assistant utility for JSON would be most helpful in the development of RESTful web services.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

CPSM's wrong interpretation about some FEPI resource definitions.

It is about FEPI definitions in the CPSM. There are a mistake of CPSM "reading" a field as Object name instead of real resource name. The WUI view "FEPI pool definitions", in the field "Node list", which help says "should be defined by creating co...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS is not able to protect itself by yielding loop

A transaction is a yielding loop will have its runaway timer clock values reset everytime it enters a wait or suspend. The runaway mechanism in CICS will not abend these transactions with an AICA. A mechanism is needed to allow the user to set a t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Make INQUIRE TRACEDEST, TRACEFLAG and TRACETYPE threadsafe

Are the following commands on your list for making threadsafe:·         EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRACEDEST          ·         EXE...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

"READ-ONLY" CEDF and CEBR

In order to justify using CEDF and CEBR in production system, we would like to have a "READ-ONLY" version of the transactions. If you are trying to trace a transaction running on another terminal that you are not authorized to run, you are not abl...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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