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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Filter on fields containing date or time info. EX: Startup Date

Example: want to filter using STARTUP DATE on the Regions tab (you can via Julian Data, ie. 5/10/2012 becomes 2012/131), but would like to find those regions restarted after date, like filter of > 2012/131 (better yet > 5/10/2012)Why not use...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Admin Control over Shipped Perspectives

Currently CICS Explorer is shipped with a set of Baseline Perspectives (CICS SM (Default), Resource, z/OS, etc.). We would like our CICS Explorer Administrators to be able to control what baseline perspectives are included in the CICS Explorer ins...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Support 'Set File Close Empty' of quiesced RLS files

This is requesting "SET FILE CLOSE EMPTY" support for quiesced RLS files. This is to facilitate the reuse of allocated space for VSAM RLS files without the need for duplicate FCT entries (RLS and non-RLS), and the manipulation of them. (i.e. close...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Expand the data content of the CICS DLA along with the ability to filter unwanted data.

The CICS DLA currently collects data for 17 resources and only the NAME and LABEL field for each resource. In order to support the change history use case in TADDM, all 35 or so classes needed to be collected along with the attributes of each (min...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Be able to configure the precedence of a MRO (mainly) or ISC connection over an IPCONN with the same name

Customer has requested an option that allows to configure the precedence of a MRO (mainly) or ISC connection over an IPCONN with the same name.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM WUI. Request to optimize the definition of a new CICS system, using an existing definition as a reference.

Please, see the screens attached to this request. When the customer is creating a new CICS definition via CPSM, it is usual to use an existing definition with similar characteristics as a reference/sample. During the definition of the "CICS system...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

BAS target/related regions can not currently overlap.

The customer would like to let BAS install more of their resource definitions. They have 250+ MASes servicing hundreds of applications.They already have a number of CICS System Groups defined.The problem they have is that when they attempt to inst...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CPSM to display CICS completed task in user local time instead of GMT time.

Now CICSPLEX SM always showed CICS completed task stop time in GMT instead of user's local time in HISTORY VIEW. It caused inconvenience to user. I wish you would set up a new parameter in CPSM for users to choose GMT or local time for CICS comple...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Remove restrictions on the number of FEPI targets and FEPI nodes that can be defined in a FEPI Pool through BAS.

In the current CPSM design, FEPI Pool resources defined with BAS are limited to 128 FEPI nodes and 32 FEPI targets. This is due to the size of the NODELIST and TARGETLIST fields in the FEPOODEF resource table, as well as other restrictions. CICS o...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS as a HTTP client, how to use one fixed logical customized IP address for outbound?

The customer has a CICS region acting as a "HTTP client ". It is working as a client and it is doing a HTTP request to an external server. Customer would like a way to access and customize the origin IP address within CICS (acting as client) and s...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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