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Provide Facility to refresh RACF Keyring that is used by CICS.

The customer installs new TCP/IP services into CICS that use SSL. The installation of these objects can occur online. If new Certificates are required, they can be added using RACF facilities online, but CICS will not see the updated keyring until...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer; Provide dataset "favourites" list

Customer in the CICS DA 1.1 beta using CICS Explorer 1.0.1. Under the Datasets tab please provide the option to create a favourites list of Datasets so that the customer does not have to keep scrolling through the list to find the datasets that th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Addition of message indicating release of GCD and LCD

The customer would like to have a message added to CICS that wwill report what release the Global and Local Catalogs were created.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

VSCR for CICS IPCS verbexit

Is there any chance of getting the VERBX DFHPD660, say, changed so that it loads above the 31-bit line? There are Binder options, that need a PDSE, that can use RMODE(SPLIT), HOBSET that would allow you to keep the existing structure…but would giv...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Convert CICS IPCS Verb Exit DFHPDxxx to RMODE(ANY) (SHARE requirement SSCICS10006)

Rewrite the CICS IPCS verb exit DFHPDxxx residence mode ANY. Many times it's necessary to compare formatted CICS blocks between two domains. Because DFHPDxxx is so large (> 3M) IPCS cannot load the verb exit due to shortages of storage below th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHRMUTL small improvement (SHARE requirement SSCICS07003)

Using the wrong version of DFHRMUTL to initialize the DFHGCD cause interesting abends during the CICS region starts (e.g. AKEF and so on).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CEMT I DSA does not show current GCDSA size.

CEMT I DSA only shows MEMLIMIT value.Customer would like it to display the current GCDSA size, similar to the way a CEMT I DSA would show the current Eudsasize(xxxxxxxxxx).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Increase the number of Regions Available in DFHSTUP

Increase the number of Regions Available in DFHSTUP. There was an increase code via PTF for CICS TS 3.2 and 4.1 but it was only increased to 750. That seems to be inefficient. We use DFHSTUP Exceptions to pull Exception Records from our Production...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHWS2LS Translate Underscore to Dash for COBOL.

When DFHWS2LS creates COBOL copy books it translates underscores to X. In COBOL the character that is commonly used similar to the underscore is the dash. DFHWS2LS should allow the user to specify that an underscore should be translated to a dash ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS commarea allocated below the line for XCTL with program set as 31bit

When XCTL is used, CICS ensures that any COMMAREA is addressable by the program that receives it, by copying it below the 16MB line. This seems like a needless use of below the line storage, when we have transactions that otherwise completely run ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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