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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Reduce amount of manual input for program definitions in an APP. Bundle

When Creating Application bundles it is very common to have close to 1 hundred programs, and manually entering all the program's values, is very time consuming!
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Issue an accompanying ICH**** message with DFHAM4955

Issue an accompanying ICH**** message with DFHAM4955
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"

From FITS MR0521136959 CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"Changes were made to the 110 records to help with merging the 110s from the TOR, AOR and FOR.  However, apparently one data element was not included in that effort (original ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

xJCL transform utility

As an application developer, if I want to use batch modernization features, I have to manually rewrite all JCLs to xJCL. Can we have any tool/utility to do the batch transformation? Meanwhile, We're using Control-M scheduler, and we have job depen...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide documentation on auxiliary and GTF trace record formats

Provide documentation on the contents and layout of CICS Auxiliary trace and GTF trace records.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

DNS validation - access to 'SubjectAlternativeName'

We like to enhance the existing TLS (based on SSL Cert) security with a DNS validation. The ‚SubjectAlternativeName‘ form SSL Cert must be equal to Caller DNS (CICS EXTRACT TCPIP CLIENTNAME).Today the CICS API CICS ‘EXTRACT CERTIFICATE' gives us a...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DTP over IPIC

enhance IPIC to support DTP
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Formalize Delivery of JWS Deployment Option

Currently the CICS Explorer JWS Deployment Option is delivered via DeveloperWorks, in principle like a SupportPac. We would like it's delivery to be formalized
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer JWS Deployment - Ability to package a JRE in the .jnlp file

We would like the ability to package the JRE in the JWS .jnlp file for CICS Explorer Deployment
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

avoid TCB stealing when CICS start up with traniso=yes

When CICS starts up with transaction isolation=yes, and transaction is defined as threadsafe. It is possible that lots of TCB stealing for transactions run the first time. It affects the performance a lot. Customer think it is a design issue. CICS...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration