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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Event to interact with ML for z/OS

update CICS Event to be able to call the Machine Learning for z/OS product. This will enable any CICS user or CICS system event to interact with the latest in mainframe analytics tools. The event could inject data into the ML service in addition t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Cancel this one, satisfied with CICSTS53 - XMEO filtered out. CICS UDT Datatable NOSPACE when IEF043I specified limit hit - need message in Joblog

Cancelling RFE. RFE satisfied with TS53 message DFHFC0432 and was suppressed by our local XMEO exit. CICS UDT DataTable gets NOSPACE returned when IEF043I specified limit hit. No indication Dataspace storage limit hit in CICS Joblog; WUI and Explo...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Functionality already exists

Catering for variable timezones at the CICS region level

We have CICS applications running on a z/OS mainframe that now need to accommodate varying local time differences (i.e. multiple countries & multiple time zones in those countries), including daylight saving, while running on the same z/OS LPA...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty Urimap disabled error

We are deploying Liberty apps with the application platform context. This means we have a cics bündle containing a urimap, warfile, etc. which can be enabled with an application. The developers now wanted to do a bugfix in Version 1.0.0 in an appl...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add DISP sub parameter options for CICS TDQ dynamic allocation

When defining a dynamically allocated CICS Extra Partition Transient Data Queue for output using dynamic allocation, the documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=resources-tdqueue-attributes indicates three options are availa...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support for SHA256

The capabilities that CICS WS-Security requires are; - Full support for <wsu:Timestamp> elements, specifically creating them on outbound messages. - Support SHA256 as a signature algorithm - Support signing of individual elements, specifical...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Specify (remote) Transid on Function Shipped Requests other than DPL

It is currently possible to specify the transaction-id under which a DPL request will be invoked in the remote region using the "Transid" remote attribute on the program definition. This should be expanded to all function shippable remote requests...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Object Oriented COBOL support in CICS

Currently Object Oriented COBOL is not available in CICS. We think that CICS should support the entire suite of features in IBM COBOL, so developers can use all the functionality of IBM COBOL, without limitations by the platform.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Applications not installed after JVM error

We had an timout error in the JVM. This caused, that after a cold start the installed apps in application/platform context have not been installed. After changing this to a warm start now it works, but on this weekend we installed new PTFs and we ...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

In CICS: Allow products, like CICS VT, to be driven at end of task processing and before the syncpoint.

CICS VT intercepts CICS File Control requests in the File Contol GLUEs and converts them to DB2 requests. These are leaving the DB2 cursors OPEN.When the task reaches end of task syncpoint, Recovery Manager calls DB2 to PREPARE and COMMIT before t...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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