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Need a new EXEC CICS INQUIRE browse command, or a modification to EXEC CICS INQUIRE UOWENQ browse

Need a new EXEC CICS INQUIRE browse command, or a modification to EXEC CICS INQUIRE UOWENQ browse, to allow a program to quickly find out the owner of and waiters for any resource that can be enqueued upon with EXEC CICS ENQ.Currently, an EXEC CIC...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS CEDX Activated for a specific USERID or TERMID

Customer would have the possibility to activate the CICS CEDX debug facility selecting a specific USERID or TERMID other than the Actual transaction ID. This functionality can help them to debug the activities related to a specific User or Termina...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Grouplist Limitation

Customer has found that they are missing some groups in the Group List because the current limit of the number of lists you can specify on the GRPLIST start-up override is limited to 4.This can cause them some problems and would like CICS to expan...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex Compatibility mode

Ability to configure a CICS environment to allow only CICSPLex compatible API calls. 1) Compiler option to disallow all API calls which are not inherently CICSPlex compliant (e.g. EXEC CICS ADDRESS) 2) SIT parameter option to abend and report any/...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHJUP FROM and TO Support for Data Sets

When processing a logstream DFHJUP provides support for FROM and TO times. Our customer needs support for FROM and TO times when processing a data set where the logstream information has been copied. Each day the journal data from the logstream is...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHWS2LS: Variable names in the generated PL/I / COBOL code

DFHWS2LS: Variable names in the generated PL/I / COBOL code is unnecessary added a number where it is not necessary for unique identification ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance non-soap pipeline to allow passing HTTP body & get userid

Customer is trying is pass an HTTP body to an application using a commarea or container, and switch userids. They want to make this a general offering to any application, the pipeline configfile gives them the opportunity to pass parms from the pi...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Change DFHMQSSQ to accept COMMAREA input as well as INPUTMSG.

Customer uses MQ and start monitor transaction CKTI with different inital queue during CICS start up, one of the CKTI is started from SIT, all others are started by PLT. For those CKTI started by PLT will need to manually start after MQ recycled. ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Correct 0C1ABEND when running a batch DB2 application that has been mistakenly linked with the CICS-supplied DFHD2LI.

" Customer reports problem with a COBOL program compile/le/bind/run using DYNAMIC option. An Abend-aid dump will show ABEND0C1in module CEESTM00. This module does not exist in the CEEproduct code per IBM. Root cause: CICS library containing DSN mo...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

When DFHLG0780 is issued you can only delete/define the logstream

After a Coupling Facility failure on a production environment, the delete/define action had to be performed against a user journal due to error message DFHLG0780 X'00000004' X'00000407' . We expect that,in case of a user journal,the choice to proc...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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