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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Add pipeline support for XML

Add pipeline support for XML similar to JSON pipeline.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Support private DB2 connection in Application

Provide DB2 connections as a private resource or dependency in an application.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Remote DB2 connections for application/platform

Add remote DB2 connection support for applications and platforms.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Only allow some dump code for a sepecified transaction

BOC would like to take a dump(code xxxx), but it will take effect on all the transactions, they only care about some special transaction, and they would not like to so much dump from many transaction be taken. So they would like CICS could provide...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ProvideTS51 Supplemental Data Areas Manual for support for existing user written CICS programs

After upgrading from CICS TS41 to TS51, some of my applications are abending. Some of the data areas have moved. We wrote these applications in earlier versions with the supplemental data areas manual was available. I cannot maintain these program...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

ESB for Cics Liberty

I didn't found something for the ESB so I made this RFE in the CIcs Queue. We provide a SOA Environment with an Enterprise Service Bus an ODM and an Process Engine (not from IBM). In this Environment we face one big problem and this is the staging...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

capability to know workload in target region group for workload flow control

When target region group doesn't have the capability to run more workload. Customer wants a routing failure when routing from TOR to AOR.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

MQ GETWAIT INTERVAL not correctly honored

MQ GETWAIT REQUEST takes longer than what has been coded in the INTERVALWAIT parameter. It seems that the cics dispatcher doesn't include the INTERVAL value (timeout) when it handle the request from MQ.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Local ASSIGN APPLICATION

For local testing it is very bad to develop and when you want to test suddenly you have to stop when you come to Cics components. Some months ago someone of the Lab asked if we are interesed in this topic. I didn't find the time, but now I can say...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

JSON web services assistant to output messages in user's native language

Update the JSON web services assistant to output messages in the following languages according to the operating system locale: French (fr)German (de)Spanish (es)Italian (it)Turkish (tr)Korean (ko)Japanese (ja)Simplified Chinese (zh)
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration