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Identity Propagation: EXEC CICS INQUIRE ASSOCIATION needs to give access to IDIDSEC4

Currently, "EXEC CICS INQUIRE ASSOCIATION" gives access to the "Distinguished Name" (DNAME) and "Realm" (REALM). When IDIDSEC4 is being set (either from DataPower or from within a CICS Pipeline Handler), EXEC CICS INQUIRE ASSOCIATION should be enh...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Identity Propagation - Changes in information transmitted via ICRX needs to be reflected in CICS

Support different "DID Section 4" - Data for different requests. Do not cache "Section 4"-data at the ACEE. In our solution, we store some custom informations in DID Section 4, that can be changed by customer between the requests. In that case, on...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Test - Please ignore

Please ignore - Cancel this as invalid when seen Testing RFE.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Support Identity-Propagation via JMS/MQ

Support Identity-Propagation via JMS/MQ as done via CTG. Outbound JMS/MQ should also be supported. Incoming messages: Build ACEE DID based on identity provided by message-producer. Outgoing messages: If DID is available, add this information to me...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Java DFHSJ0207 Message

We have long running JVM tasks that never end. Therefore, we never get the DFHSJ0207 message stating the version of Java that we are using. We are aware of the DFHSJ0901 message, but it doesn't clearly spell out Java 6.0 or Java 6.0.1 like the DFH...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to DFHLS2WS

There is an option for DFHLS2WS (java routine) being WSDLCP. With this option you can specifiy the code page that is used to generate the WSDL document. It is possible to specify EBCDIC-CP-US, UTF-8 and LOCAL. Hond Belgium want to have the possibi...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

CPSM Dynamic Transaction Routing, based upon defined PCT's using CPSM Topology map

For CPSM Transaction routing, we have a router and several targets; target only; not combination target / router. The targets are not all exactly the same, being that they all don't have the same tranID defined in all. The CPSM Topology map could ...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Deployment Assistant: Provide latest information in the job log

Provide latest information in the job log of a running spool file without performing a manual refresh action to allow customer to monitor and review running system with minimal intervention.Most of the jobs that are to be viewed in this fashion ar...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

A new parm or alike so that customer can change the default "YES" value of the CEDF Continue option to “No” by theirself.

A new parm or alike so that customer can change the default "YES" value of the CEDF Continue option to “No” by theirself.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Not under consideration

Mark CICS as unhealthy from the CPSM WLM point of view, if RM like e.g. DB2 is not available, but is essential for most trans

If the application ( e.g. described by a trangroup, by the whole WLM specification ) in a CICS region has a dependency on WMQ, IMS or DB2 and the connection to these resources managers is down, CICSPlex SM should mark these regions as unhealthy un...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration