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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Provide a Global User Exit point for program termination.

Currently CICS provides the GLUE XPCFTCH which is given control before an application program is executed. Various IBM and ISV products use this to get control to build an environment for their code to use.However, there is no corresponding exit p...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

Copied from the following APAR: (sorry for the all caps)APAR= PN08959 SER= PIN=566540301-817 IN INCORROUT EIBTIME FIELD HAS INCORRECT SIGN AFTER ASKTIME. STAT= CLOSED DOC FESN6540301- CTID= HU0414 ISEV= 4 SB91/10/23 RC91/10/24 CL91/11/18 PD91/11/2...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Agricultural Bank of China has a new requirement of service class re-classification.

System: CICS TSActor: User needing new feature of service class re-classification. Description :MRO connection is set up between TOR and AOR. There is a long running task in TOR receiving request from front end. When the long running task receives...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Type 4 DB2 driver compatability in CICS OSGI JVM server

Support Type 4 DB2 drivers from OSGI JVM's also address the integrity issues, commit and roll back
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM Workload algorithm enhancement

Customers need IBM to develop an enhancement to the present CPSM Algorithm in order to save MLC (monthly license charge). The current CPSM solution provides workload balancing which dynamically routes transactions among a set of target regions (AO...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Change CEOT security so read just displays (no fields changeable)

Would like CICS CEOT transaction to have display only fields (no changeable fields) if read access is given to CEOT and have the changeable fields if update access is given to CEOT.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Flexible hostname lookup when using a proxy

Flexible hostname lookup is needed when using a proxy. CICS acting as a client can consume services/APIs on both internal (customer) and external (internet) networks. When consuming external services, CICS needs to route requests out through a pro...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer: Remove Rule does not delete it

By removing RULE1 from SPEC1 in CICS Explorer, it just removes its association. There is no option to remove the whole RULE1 (WLM Group/WLM Definition/WLM Transaction Group) from the CPSM repository. a. In the repository, the subject WLM Group/WLM...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Inquire and browse Applications in a similar manner to programs.

CICS contains SPI and XPI interfaces to inquire on a particular program as well as browsing through the list of installed program definitions. However, although the same functions for applications are available internally in the same domain, these...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration