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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Is it possible during the compile to figure out that the CICS integrated translator is used, but there is no CICS statements

Is it possible during the compile to figure out that the CICS integrated translator is used, but there is no CICS statements in the source? DB2 Integrated translator throwes an error msg, if you compile and the source does not contain DB2-statements.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

DTP over IPIC

Support for DTP over IPIC
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Support for SFTP Mainframe Connection in CICS Explorer

Company standards require mainframe connections to use SFTP. Today CICS Explorer supports FTP and FTP SSL/TLS but not SFTP.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

ADJUSTMENT ON DFHPILSQ

GoodmorningWe would like program DFHPILSQ (CPIL transacation) to be changed so that it doens not wait 60 seconds for a new message to arrive on the Q.We would like to see a second version off this program that processes a MQ messages and maybe a s...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Application bundle issues with Transaction Profiles

While trying to setup application bundles in TS 5.1, I ran into a bit of a problem with Transaction profiles, and the 2 keywords within, that I need. ScreenSize: Alternate and... Upper case translate. Normally I just have my own sample PROFILE for...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS ENQ should conform to CICS standards

All the assembler EXEC CICS commands will generate a LENGTH(=AL2(L'FROM_AREA)) for you if you leave the length off, and the area is not a register such as: FROM(0(,R5)) And in every case I have seen where the length doesn't get supplied automatica...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Reduce amount of manual input for program definitions in an APP. Bundle

When Creating Application bundles it is very common to have close to 1 hundred programs, and manually entering all the program's values, is very time consuming!
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Issue an accompanying ICH**** message with DFHAM4955

Issue an accompanying ICH**** message with DFHAM4955
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"

From FITS MR0521136959 CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"Changes were made to the 110 records to help with merging the 110s from the TOR, AOR and FOR.  However, apparently one data element was not included in that effort (original ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

xJCL transform utility

As an application developer, if I want to use batch modernization features, I have to manually rewrite all JCLs to xJCL. Can we have any tool/utility to do the batch transformation? Meanwhile, We're using Control-M scheduler, and we have job depen...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration