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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Lack of options in START CHANNEL

Under CICS TS 5.4 - and up to 5.6 there is no support for the PROTECT / NOCHECK options with START commands issued with CHANNELs. This imposes a significant limitation where CHANNEL's are in effect the strategic comms pattern for CICS program inte...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add MQMONITOR name to CKTI messages

Messages issued by the CICS MQ tasks, CKTI specifically, to contain the MQMonitor name when the task is associated with an MQMonitor
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Implement a "run on server" like function in the CICS Explorer SDK for CICS Java development testing

Currently CICS Java testing from Eclipse is not an easy task. This is mostlly because testing requires a real CICS system. This implies connectivity, CICS deployment, CICS refresh and exposes the CICS complexity to Java developers. Also debugging ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 10 Delivered

Allow Java 7.1 in CICS TS 5.1

Allow CICS TS 5.1 to access Java 7.1_64.We installed CICS TS 5.1 in February, 2014We upgraded to Java 7.1_64 with our z/OS 2.1 upgrade in July, 2014.We do not currently use Java in CICS.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add storage statistics field for available 64-bit extents LWM

A new statistics field should be created that will be similar to this calculation outlined in the CICS v5.5 Knowledge Center (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/reference/statistics/dfht3_stats_stgmgr_0stat_above2GB.html)-...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow enable/disable of transactions starting with C

Allow CEMT and SPI functions to enable or disable user transactions starting with "C".
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHWS2LS generation of more than 99 copybooks

The IBM documentation states: "REQMEM=valueSpecifies a 1- to 6-character prefix that DFHWS2LS uses to generate the names of the partitioned data set members [...] It generates the member name by appending a 2-digit number to the prefix". This rest...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Lift restriction impose by the number of non system LX

Currently the maximum number of linkage index (LX) allowed for CICS is 2048. In our shop we have over 700+ CICS regions running in the same LPAR. Each CICS consumes 2-4 LX. This leaves no room for other batch job which has the need to use LX and c...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Request CICS to retry "set TCPIPSERVICE open" command when startup

Please refer to the CASE and help to enhance the product that can have a function include a retry TCPIP service open solution. Meaning to say: if the CICS TOR try to open the TCPIPSERVICE fails, it can retry to open it in a while until it open suc...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Provide an XPI to inquire on Feature Toggles

Raised at the CICS BP Conference and 1-1 with Colin Penfold. Please provide a way to inquiring on feature toggle settings
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered