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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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cics logger definitions

when cics v3 first came out there was a program dfhlscu which would read the old cics log files and generate the logger definitions for the dfhlog and dfhhunt datasets to use xcf logger, which at that time was dasd only, it also gave recommendatio...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

"CICSPlex SM resource tables" documentation needs additional information

We had a discussion this morning during the CPSM Community conference call. It was suggested that I submit this through the RFE process..Please update the "CICSPlex SM resource tables" documentation so that more information is given on the real so...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Allow relative GDGs as TDQUEUEs

Please allow the EXEC CICS CREATE TDQUEUE command to include a relative GDG indicator (eg. -1 or -2). The command translator flags DSNAME(xxx.xxx.xxx(-2)) as having too many parentheses. You may also want to extend this capability to the CSD file.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Modify commarea of DYP to contain Invoking program

What the customer is trying to achieve, making routing decisions inside the routing program based on the name of the program that initiated the START request, seems like a perfectly reasonably and valid thing to wantto do. Unfortunately it is not ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

SysPlex/CICSPlex compliance FORCE environment mode

Problem: No CICS simple flag/option in SIT and compiler to force SysPlex/CICSPlex compliance? With the general commoditisation of programmers worldwide skills are dropping or being concentrated into small pools. Customer sites are required to put ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Platform application operation registry

In this RFE I want to put two things, because they belong somehow together. If this should be separated, let me know and I will raise a second one. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System constellat...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer: Update multiple regions for a single resource

I use CPSM WUI to select a list of resources and then take an action on the selected list. This action could be to DISABLE or DISCARD the resource. It could be to update an attribute of the resource that would be updated in all the selected region...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

ENTRY POINT CONTAINER DEFINITION

We are running Java and PL/1 in an application context. As the developers have started to integrate Java in our environment we have the need of an communication between two applications. This all works fine, if you are not shipping data from one l...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Need API count for CICS Transactions/Programs

I am requesting a feature that would allow me to get a count by API, all the APIs that were executed during the life of a CICS program or Transaction.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

support ABtest using CICS application multi-version in production

open on behalf of ICBC. Customer want to use application multi-version capability in CICS TS 5.2 to support ABtest in production. But it doesn't work. When request cross application, the request may go to the wrong version
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration