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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Web Services should support Unicode (UTF-16)

When using CICS web services, the default translation code page is UTF-8 from localccsid. This customer has user data in a DB2 sub-system stored in UTF-16. To process this data using CICS web services, they must read the DB2 tables and translate f...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CICS JVMSERVER logs administration

CICS JVMSERVER support generates unix filesystem logs. CICS does not supply anything to administer these logs, which can potentially be big. The infocenter does not supply much help regarding best practices related to logs handling or the content ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHDSDS4 ABEND S0C4 at offset X'3E06'

Service request 34316 004 000 was opened with support for the following abend in CICS.DFHDSDS4 ABEND S0C4 at offset X'3E06' occurred after DB2 abended and CICS tried to reconnect. The reconnect failed, and CICS had to be recycled
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

EYU9XLOP is called regardless of DYNAMIC(YES) specification

I would like transactions to invoke EYU9XLOP only if DYNAMIC(YES) is specified on a transaction when a region specifies either DSRTPGM=EYU9XLOP and/or DTRPGM=EYU9XLOP Right now, regardless of the DYNAMIC specification on the transaction, EYU9XLOP ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

Provide CICS Stats to show peak Threads used for JVM

The RDO definition for a JVM includes the maximum number of threads. CICS Explorer and DFHSTUP always show all Threads in use. I'd like to see the actual number of threads used so we know if the number defined is appropriate. DFHSTUP output JVMSER...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Support http-method PATCH

For some communication, especially REST-API's, the http-method PATCH is required. The CICS Web Interface should support it.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Temporary storage cleanup in CF

During simultaneous Cics's startup, new pick have emerged due to delete of TS queue.Temporary storage cleanup in CF .So customer is asking these following requests: 1-Is it possible to somehow assign the cleaning to a single region or alternately ...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR

Remove hard coded zFS address from the DFHLS2WS (and associated) scripts
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Newcopy feature for CICS Application Bundles(OSGI) needed

When making changes to a Java Application within an OSGI Bundle you know need to disable, discard and re-install the CICS bundle for the new changes to become active. Since our developer will be making these changes and we don't want to give them ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

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