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Allow a Specific Library name to be specified on a PPT definition (SHARE requirement SSCICS08024)

Allow a Specific Library DD Name to be optionally specified on a CICS Program or Mapset Definition in CEDA, or via auto install. TimeLimit: Until this is provided we can't for see using the new Library feature, due to its excessive I/O and CPU ove...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Receiving big files from a HTTP POST request into CICS in smaller chunks

Customer thinks that would be a great idea to be able to receive big files from a HTTP POST request into CICS; now the customer has the EDSA limit where they have to allocate the storage required to save the whole HTTP request (if the file being s...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS does not cancel the terminal message when online transaction abended with ADCS in CICS and back out was completed in IMS

This problem was caused by the side-effect of APAR PQ48343, which was developed for solve the problem of transaction routing and running local were working differently. PQ48343 fixed that problem but in so doing made deferred sends get sent to the...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Having SYSTEM DUMP CODE and TRANSACTION DUMP CODE managed as RDO object for CICS

Currently to manage entries in the system dump table of CICS Transaction Server we only have to use CEMT command to define/modify entries It would be interesting to have an RDO object to define an entry in the system dump table It would allow auto...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Problem with CICS Server: HTTP TRACE method

CICS CWS Server answers all request HTTP TRACE method, so it could trigger attacks type "cross-site-scripting".
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide a CPU threshhold cancelation feature

Currently there is no mechanism in CICS to cancel/abend a task in a yielding loop from consuming CPU. CICS only has protection against non-yielding loops by specifying the RUNAWAY parm on the transaction definition.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Set Limit on Storage Used by a CICS Transaction

Now that CICS is web enabled applications can create extremely large documents. This can cause the CICS region to go short on storage. It should be possible to limit the amount of storage a transaction uses so that the creation of a large document...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS TS should provide GETPASSTICKET API

We have many legacy 3270 green screen CICS applications which periodically call our CICS goodbye program to reconnect the user's 3270 session on a different CICS system without reauthenticating the user. The goodbye program disconnects the termina...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Include cipher code in all CICS performance SMF records.

Please include the cipher code selected for an HTTP SSL conversation in the SMF 110 performance records.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add APPEND option to PUT container command

EXEC CICS PUT CONTAINER will currently replace all data in a channel if the channel exists. Customer would like an option to append data when doing a PUT to a container.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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