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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Provide documentation on auxiliary and GTF trace record formats

Provide documentation on the contents and layout of CICS Auxiliary trace and GTF trace records.
over 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...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DTP over IPIC

enhance IPIC to support DTP
over 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

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

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