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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Need a new transaction equivalent to CEMT INQUIRE

The auditors want reports on who has accessed critical transactions such as CEMT. Even though we have our security definitions set up so most users can only use INQUIRE with CEMT, SMF simply reports a user executed CEMT with no further breakdown. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need CPSM auto affinity for LOCK/TASK similar to LOCK/UOW that extends the affinity to the entire task.

Need a CPSM auto affinity for LOCKI/TASK similar to LOCK/UOW except that the DPL affinity is extended to the lifetime of the task and not just the UOW.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

CPSM BADWRKLD documentation.

Message that indicates bad workload in CPSM and information on how to get detailed documentation. The exception trace records are suppressed with PM44954, there is no indication of how to be aware there is a BADWRKLD problem, and how to get docume...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

There is no CICS API/SPI or command to display the AID chain.

Provide a API/SPI similar to the INQUIRE TSQ and DELELTEQ TS for AIDs. The INQUIRE function should return the Trans, Term, Term Status, Owning System, AID Type, Request ID, AID address and Age of the AID. The DELETE or CANCEL function should allow...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

PL/1 Pointer support creating CICS Business Events

The Customer has been running a PoC for creating CICS Business Events to be emitted to IBM Business Monitor. Unfortunately The customer are using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer dows not work....
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Option to prevent DYNAMIC programs from running locally

Allow an option on a program definition to prevent a dynamically routed program from running locally if there is an error.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

BUNDLE SCAN function(like PIPELINE SCAN) and Version management

We want BUNDLE can work as the PIPELINE, which is, the bundledir can contain several .zip files(each contains a single BUNDLE definition), and the install of the bundledir can pickup all the .zip files, just like the PIPELINE SCAN function. BOCOM ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFH$MOLS option to pass all SMF records with EXTEND and decompress DB2 SMF

1. The DFH$MOLS utility EXPAND option uncompresses the SMF 110 Subtype 1 records, but it does not write any other SMF records to its output. An option to pass all input records into the output when EXPAND is specified is needed, and the output mus...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add 64-bit CICS Explorer for Linux

Currently,IBM CICS Explorer for Linux is 32-bit only. If running a "pure" 64-bit Linux operating system (OS), such as "Slackware for the x86_64 architecture", or Slackware64 for short (see http://www.slackware.com/), the current CICS Explorer for ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Shared Frame Write For CICS Data Table

This RFE is for an enhancement to the EXEC CICS WRITE to support a SHARED FRAME option for a CICS Data Table write. A SHARED FRAME WRITE would mean that when a program does a WRITE to a CICS data table with the proposed SHARED FRAME option, the un...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 7 Not under consideration

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