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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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DFHLS2WS improvements to avoid manual edit and DFHWS2LS usage.

I want a DFHLS2WS improvements to avoid manual edit to change minOccurs and DFHWS2LS usage.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Delivered

Global transaction - avoidance of timeout/deadlock in a WAS trans. accessing a DB2 resource both directly and through CICS

A WAS transaction directly updates a DB2 resource and afterwards calls a CICS program (through CTG) that tries to access the same DB2 resource; this ends up in timeout or deadlock situations. As far as DB2 is concerned the two transactions are dis...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 9 Delivered

Signing of a pre-built SAML-Bearer-Token

Give a possibility within CICS to sign (add the “Signature”-Information using a specified certificate) a pre-built SAMLBearer-Token (presented as a String to CICS). Return the results as String.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Creation of a SAML-Bearer-Token

Give a possibility within CICS to create a SAML-Bearer-Token (as a String) from specified Datastructures/Containers holding information like “Issuer”, “NotBefore”, “NotOnOrAfter”, “Audience” and Attribute-Statements (Name/Value-Pairs), …
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Change DFHPDxxx to run above the line

Provide virtual storage relief for users of IPCS VERBEXIT DFHPDxxx, e.g. DFHPD670. i.e. 1) load DFHPDxxx above the line, and 2) allocate GETMAINEDed storage and I/O buffers above the line. Note: I was wondering whether the Binder options SPLIT and...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CPSM Workload Connect Message, indicating workload joined

Produce message that indicates joined workload +EYUNL0160I QAB2CICG Workload registration complete... could be,.. +EYUNL0160I QAB2CICG Workload registration complete. to WS MYWORKLD
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CICS System Events to monitor individual CICS Messages

Customer would like CICS System Events to have the ability to register an event based upon a CICS message being emitted. There would probably be a need to have some filtering capability based upon the inserts within the message.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

IPIC in local mode accepting only one IPCONN from a WAS multiservant app. server

The CF is defined at a server level scope, and so the 2 CFs in each servant are using the same Qualifier.Applid. This Applid is used by the CTG in the IPIC connection establishment and so CICS will only accept the IPCONN from the first JVM (servan...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

TCB Switch for Java applications with each access to DB2

In the past we invested a lot of work to get our Assembler and COBOL applications threadsafe. As a consequence we avoid a lot of TCB switches between the QR TCB and the L8 TCB. This saves a lot of CPU and improves the response time. With Java, in ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Change CICS IPIC related transactions(CI**) with TASKDATAKey(CICS)

CICS IPIC should keep connectivity, and any user bad applications should not overlay the storage of CICS IPIC's long running tasks.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered