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My ideas: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Enhancement to DFHLS2WS

Enhance DFHLS2WS to support PL/I PIC'999' fields for input structures and any style PL/I PIC field for output. At run time, the data mapper should treat the fields as character fields. Right now the developer has to create addtiional structure def...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

CMCI JVM Server does not display Application Data information in response to NETSTAT CONN APPLDATA SERVER command

When the following command is issued under TSONETSTAT CONN APPLDATA SERVER TCP TCPIP FORMAT LONG The tradtional CMCI server port returns the following information CICSWS55 00169D2B Listen Local Socket: ::..5559 Foreign Socket: ::..0 Application Da...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Multiple CICSPLEX view for CICS Explorer

Requirement:Ability for CICS Explorer to connect to, display, and manage resources in multiple regions simultaneously regardless of which LPAR and/or SYSPLEX might contain those regions.  Permit logical groupings of regions by function withou...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer be provided with an ‘Interrupt' or ‘Cancel' button

Provide the CICS Explorer be with an ‘Interrupt' or ‘Cancel' button, for data requests that were incorrectly defined
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions.

there is always a dependency if service applied for CPSM to restart the maintenance point at first. In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions and their depending MAS regions.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Switch off CMF for a specified Transaction

CEB has a web support application, a single request will lead to multiple transaction been invoked,eg CWXN, CWBA, as well as some mirror task, this will bring a huge cost to print the CMF data, so they wonder if there is a way to switch off the CM...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

ptf requirement for the function of optimized web support

here is a question from CEB customers, they are now using web support, and they are complain that there are too many transactions for a single http request, eg, CSOL, CWXN, CWBA, and they use FOR as well, so there will be mirror transaction to rea...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Platform deactivation without deactivation of bundles

We have > 20 and soon > 50 applications on a platform. At the moment it is not possible to deactivate a platform without deactivating the apps. This is very bad. If we want to add a cics region in production on the fly to a platform region g...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics Explorer Virtual Reality Support - Operators View

At the moment there is only omegamon to visualise running transactions in cics and to see the cics environment (CICSPLEX) this is very difficult to do it in a simple way, because there is too much information in it and you need to be a specialist ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 bundle phasein support

We have the developer requirement to quickly test his application in test state. For this we will use zospt to create a new cics for the developer. He then has his own region to test the application. If the developer compiles a modul in a componen...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration