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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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The CICS Explorer should support the management of CICSPlex.

The CICS Explorer should support the management of CICSPlex. For example, it can create a new CICSPlex.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

CPSM should allow multiple events to be named in a WLMSPEC and in a TRANGRP

Description: Dave Williams and Mayur Raya did take a look at the batchrep dump of the WLM definitions and, as discussed during today's call, we noticed that although two RTADEFs had been defined (one called MAKESICK and the other called DB2DEFCO),...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Update CICS signon program to allow for more than 246 characters so it can display IRS required Warning Banners.

The IRS PUB 1075 regulatory requirements requires a business use statement or warning banner for systems that hold Federal Taxpayer Information (FTI). Here is the warning banner suggestion. https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/warning-banner-mus...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Create a CICS CBL statement to indicate a COBOL program is threadsafe

Create a CBL statement that can be included in the COBOL source program that indicates the program is threadsafe. At compile/linked time the compiler/linkeditor should detect this CBL statement and indicate that the load module is threadsafe. If r...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

WAET1111-1460 CICS Ability to dynamically scale

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bill.MitlehnerSubmitters Company: Aetna PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: WAET1111-1460 CICS Ability to dynamically scaleHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: WebSphereCurrent Status: RecognizedClosed Status: ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add Trace Entries to the callable interface routine DFHNCTR

Reason: A use has a batch exit program that uses DFHNCTR for a named counter server function. This exit has worked fine under 3.2 for years. Now when moving to 4.2 the first calls get "Server not found RC 304". After re-cycling the batch job it wo...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics dosn't provide chronological serialization sysplex wide

Cics cannot guarantee chronological ENQ acquisition sysplex wide ENQs, so there isn't any way to serialize in chronological ENQs order sysplex wide .
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for Chunked Transfer Encoding for Web Services Responses.

For HTTP 1.1 clients CICS as a service provider should honor the chunked transfer encoding HTTP header when sending the response. For many clients accepting chunked transfers is optimal rather than handling a response sent with a content-length.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS ECI Transactions Delayed by RACF exclusive ENQ.

In a 24/7 Electronic Funds processing environment, CICS transaction processing should not be delayed when the RACF database is being backed up (IRRUT200).
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update IBM z/OS CICS related product message manuals to include WTO route and descriptor code information.

In order to provide proactive incident notifications, enable automatic ticket creation and ensure either a human or automated operator is aware of "actionable" z/OS CICS related product events, we need to ensure that all product provided actionabl...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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