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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Internal Trace should not be allowed to be disabled

Opening this RFC on behalf of the customer in PMR 67263,122,000. They experienced a 2-byte Storage Violation in a TIOA. They run with internal trace turned off, so no history of the storage was visible in the trace table. They were asked to turn a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow for predefined Event Adapter/Adapterset restrictions in CICS region

The ability to force the use of specific Adapters/Adaptersets should be an option to CICS (perhaps through a SIT option or ESM call). This would allow organizations with specific requirements for the controls on Adapters to prebuild approved ones ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Web Services Assisant.

From the created COPYLIB member: * Comments for field 'OriginSPLC': * This field represents the value of XML element * '/RateRankRequest/RatingRequest/ShipHeaderInfo/OriginSPLC'. * XML data type: 'string'. * XML 'whiteSpace' facet value: 'preserve...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically install CICS SVCs and LPA and Linklist modules to an LPAR with CICS running

With CICS TS 5.1 it is possible to dynamically install the CICS SVC i.e. no IPL is required to install the 5.1 SVC. However, this can only be achieved by shutting down any CICS regions running on the LPAR, installing the SVC, LPA and LINKLIST modu...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ask for CICS file OPEN in Read Update/Write/Del statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when a file is open under CICS in Read/Write CICS open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We woul...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

VSAM RLS files should have a quiescestate of UNQUIESCING

When unquiescing a VSAM/RLS file, we would like an interim state of "UNQUIESCING" that indicates that the unquiesce has been issued but has not yet completed. When used with the SET DSNAME NOWAIT option, the quiescestate returned could erroneously...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Modify DFHLS2WS to create better tags

The WSDL document created by CICS Web Services Assistant DFHLS2WS is not useable "as is" due to some issues with the values chosen for a few tags or element names. The WSDL would be more useful and compatible with other non-IBM distributed tools i...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for z/OS to have multiple concurrent connections for a category

Request that the Host Connections view of IBM Explorer for z/OS permit multiple concurrent host connections to be active within a connection category. Currently, if a connection is shown as successful within a category, then during an attempt to c...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for z/OS to accept connection states via other product plug-ins

Host connection state changes within IBM Explorer for z/OS are currently established manually via the Host Connections view. Request that product plug-ins which can establish host connections independently of the Host Connections view be able to "...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Control the number of DFHAP1900 messages

With the CTS 5.1 we have a valuable feature: Log of SPI - activities. But a central application must work with ... taname FEPI SET NODE(AZP050) USERDATA(KN03) RESP... ... the FEPI SET command. With round about 600.000 messages per CICS and day we ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Is a defect

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