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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Explorer Event Processing Adapter for CICS TDQ

Would be good to have an EPadapter for CICS TDQueues - sim lar to the TS Queue Adapter which is already present in Explorer for CICS 5.1. TDQueus have more possibilities for use than TS queues for us.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

support timeout base on elapsed time of task

User wants to specify a timeout for tasks, when the elapsed time of that task is more than the value, cancel that task.<br /><br />User can accept the cancel fail or take effect after a whole. they want CICS detect the elapsed time and...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

existing DB2Tran gets deleted when changing an other DB2Entry

Add extra information in CICS InfoCenter, related to the way of working with DB2Entries and DB2Tranids. A single DB2Entry can be pointed to by many DB2Tran definitions. A DB2Entry can wildcard Transids or even explicitly define a Transid. In the c...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

JRIO OPDATA Tracking for DFHLS2WS

IBM Java Record (JRIO) is deprecated as of SDK 6.0.1. No new function will be added to any release of IBM Java Record I/O (JRIO). WSDL creation using pgm=DFHLS2WS creates the tracking instances and Health Checker then flags these alerts.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

HTTP idle session as a changeable value

Once an HTTP session is established on CICS Web Support, CICS waits 30 seconds for the HTTP client to send data. It would be very useful to be able to set that wait time to a different value, by issuing a CICS startup parameter for instance.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

EXEC CICS ASSIGN INPUTLENGTH()

Need to be able to get the length of terminal input string before receiving input: EXEC CICS ASSIGN INPUTLENGTH()
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

System actions for CICS EP system event

Customer have great interest on system event support to monitor their CICS system and want to use EP support to do some system actions such as 'take a system dump', 'write CICS log', 'issue CICS system command', etc. Currently, there is no such su...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow bundling of web service assistants with company plugin for Eclipse

Please allow and provide license for bundling the following web assistant java jar files with Eclipse plugins that our company creates: /lib/wsdl/dfjwsdl.jar /lib/wsdl/xsd.jar /lib/wsdl/xsd.resources.jar /lib/wsdl/common.jar /lib/wsdl/common.resou...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Support of the CICS V5.1 Trial Product and future ones

We are in the process of doing an IVP for the Trial CICS V5.1 Product and running into issues. I undertstand that the problem might be ours but when bringing up a new product as such , we never know what issues we might run into. When looking for ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Support more than one programs with same name load from different library in one CICS region

In CICS, user can define programs with same name in different resource group. but after install, there is only one program load from one library. Customer wants CICS support programs with same name can load from different library and coexist in CICS
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered