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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Remove the requirement for a transid to be specified so programs can be routed

Programs cannot be routed by CICS by their name alone. A transaction ID that can be routed also has to be specified. This restriction in some cases forces the use of a customised routing program to route programs dynamically.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSTS 4.2 supplementary data areas

SSCICS11008CICSTS 4.2 supplementary data areasBUSVAL : 5INVVAL : 5ENDVAL : 5GROVAL : 5SYSVAL : 5KEYWORDS : UGVOTES : +5=1 +4=6 +3=1 abstain=1 Priority=4.0DESCRIPT : A way/tool/documentation to interpret the CICSTS 4.2 system dumps produced with IP...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

INQUIRE SET and DISCARD commands to use RESTYPE and RESID

Extend the use of RESTYPE and RESID parameters used by EXEC CICS CSD commands to EXEC CICS INQUIRE, SET and DISCARD commands
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Timeout for CICS TCPIP Socket

The CSOL Sockets listener task does not have timeout mechanism similar to CSKL listener task. The Customer is asking about the timeout parameters used for applications where CICS is acting as an HTTP client. ( CICS is the Web client in this case)....
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Request to amend CICS compiler to detect undesirable (in HA) commands prior to allowing linkediting.

Certain parts of the CICS API are undesirable in a high-availability environment, for example, those creating region affinities, such as ADDRESS CWA and some enqueues. I would like to see the integrated compiler return an unique non-zero code such...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Add symbollist to GET and PUT CONTAINER

We wish for an enhancement to GET and PUT CONTAINER commands . That it further allows ,as well as the FROMCCSID and INTOCCSID options on the PUT and GET CONTAINER commands , the use of the SYMBOLLIST option that is allowed on a CREATE DOCUMENT com...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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.
about 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),...
about 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

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