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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Name counter server on Disaster Recovery Side

Hello,We've been using name counter server in our production systems. We have no problem until we open it on Disaster Recovery side. Currently when we bring up the system from the DR side, first we issue sql query to obtain latest numbers from the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Worldwide CICS education course about CICS Performance and Tuning

There are some Asia customers include China customers requested CICS education course for 'CICS Performance and Tuning'. IBM didn't provide available courses for world wide customers. Can IBM deliver course for this topic ?
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS JOURNAL + EIBAID + EIBCPOSN

We need to be able to journal the EIBAID plus the EIBCPOSN fields to make a sufficient audit trail, without addressing CICS internal control blocks.The best solution will be a new option to the existing DEFINE PROFILE MSGJOURNAL(INP) request to te...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() at specified LEVEL()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN RETURNPROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN INVOKINGPROGRAM() We need the ability to make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() LEVEL() Where LEVEL() is an input-parameter.LEVEL(0) returns the name of the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE PROGRAM() USECOUNT() We need to be able to make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE

We need the ability to make receive of terminal input data without changing the 'status' of the TIOA: EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TCPIPService definition be able to get Hostname / IP address and port information from CICS System definition.

Customer intends to use the IPCONN Autoinstall program (DFHISAIP). However, as they have a CICSplex with several MASes, he would like to define just one TCPIPSERVICE, protocol (IPIC), to be used for all regions during the autoinstall process. For ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

POST ICE to show transaction id

For any request type ICE type POST, the TransID is not displayed in CICS Explorer - please display to show like Omegamon does
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Propagate SOAPFAULT to locally-optimized WebServices

With Webservices, a service-provider can issue SOAP-Faults to return information to the service-consumer. These SOAP-faults are modeled within the wsdl. If the service-consumer uses the INVOKE SERVICE command to call a WebService that runs locally...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Explorer does not fix file buffers after a files strings are updated

When you do a copy of a file definition in CE and you change the strings it does NOT fix the buffers, but doing it through CEDA does, is there a reason why?
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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