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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Integrate CPSM in the standard CICS without additional address spaces and libraries with a graphical and 3270 user interface

Integrate IBM's CPSM into the Standard - CICS without additional (CICS) address spaces and libraries with a graphical AND a 3270 user interface IBM's CPSM, a relict written by Bool & Babbage (?) in the 1990s, will be integrated contemporary in...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow server.xml deployment in CICS bundles

Since TS 5.2 CICS has allowed jvm servers to be packages and deployed via bundle, along with its associated jvmprofile. For Liberty profile jvmservers, this support should be extended to likewise permit deployment of the associated server.xml file.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Make the z / OS Health Checker Customizable via an Administrator transaction and SIT – overwrites

Make the z / OS Health Checker Customizable via an Administrator transaction and SIT – overwrites.---See 30535,077,724.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ignore case in HTTP header processing

Per section 4.2 of the HTTP/1.1 spec, please support case insensitive HTTP header names.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Consistent case for header names

Please change the capitalization of CICS' REST service header names to match WAS, zOS Connect and most other IBM products. Specific example is the header "content-type: application/json" that many other IBM products and the industry typically have...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

not to flag ASRA and take SVC dump when ON-unit is used to handle error condition in PL/1 program

Client uses ON-unit to handle error condition in their PL/1 CICS program like this:ON FIXEDOVERFLOW BEGIN; FIXED_OUT = 999999999999999; GO TO XX999RF_EXIT; END; CICS should not flag ASRA in the transaction and take SVC dump if user chooses to use ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TS Queue - Logstash offload

In PL/1 we have the problem, that people make "put skip list/data)" and everything is spaming the CEEMSG. Now we want to introduce a PL/1 subroutine equal to log4j, Moving all the output to a TS-QUEUE. It would be great to have the possibility to ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Include DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS support in CICS bundles

I want CICS resource definitions of types DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS to be supported in CICS bundles similar to PROGRAM or URIMAP definitions. I want it to be possible to add DB2ENTRY and TRANCLASS definitions to a bundle using Eclipse, to process the...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS PL/I compiler issue

Problem description from Developer: "Error in CICS PL/I compile"DFHDUMMY are a variable that the integrated CICS-preprocessor add to the program source.The declare of DFHDUMMY as STATIC, trigger a warning message in all EXEC CICS statements,where ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration

Copy files/members/datasets across system and sysplex borders with z/OS Explorer

Copy files/members/datasets across system and sysplex borders with z/OS Explorer
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration