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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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

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

CICS Event Processing Diagnostic Mode

This was MR0316112559 in the FITS system, Submitted 03/16/2011...... Bank of America would like the ability to trace or do some problem determination when they deploy an "Event" and it either fails to work or there is a problem with the deployment...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 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

z/OS UNIX Files view should allow files to be edited by an Eclipse editor

Customer downloaded the CICS Explorer SDK, installed it in the Eclipse workbench, but I could not select the other Oxygen XML editor plug-in when opening the WSDL, XML Schema (XSD), or XML files in the Z/OS UNIX Files view.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Provide Identity Progagation support to CICS Business Event

CICS Business Event provides adapter to drive the event payload to other application environments or programs with an header described by DFHEPFEO. For some of adpaters could be possible set advanced option to add the User ID , could be interestin...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Add %Max Tasks to the Region View (SHARE requirement SSCICS11005)

We would like to see a column added to the CICS Explorer Region view that would represent the current Percentage of MAXT used.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Additions to DFHJUP and Return Codes

We recently had an incident here when we ended up having "hanging" VSAM linear datasets left over from our online log precessing. We have to save every inbound and outbound message in the NCIC system (for log searching, court cases etc). We curren...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

install transaction base on template

ICBC wants a method to autoinstall transaction base on template. Their application architect is request comes into TOR through IP socket, then IP socket listener starts a remote transaction which is routed to AOR. Most of the transactions in AOR u...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration