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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD Enhancement

An option PASSCHK=NOMFA to EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD command to bypass MFA DUO alerts
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Provide version or timestamp to validate a program

There is a need to validate that a CICS application program hasn't changed when it moves through a CD pipeline. So some sort of version or timestamp is required.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Include Summary Data in CICS requested dumps when more than one address space

The CICS documentation states that the CICS Dump exit will always produce a dump summary - see: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=dfhpd720-dump-summary-error-index but formatting a recent series of LG0772 dumps from a logger issue at 5...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Recovering from abend AICA under OTE TCB

An application can establish an abend handler by EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND, which gets control if any abend occurs, e.g. with abend code AICA. If running under OTE, an abend AICA cannot be intercepted by a user abend handler, i.e. the transaction ter...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide MODESET data in Explorer

We use the WUI to look at MODE information instead of needing to log into hundreds of CICS regions to review this data. We are trying to standardize the using of Explorer and remove the dependency on people using both Explorer and the WUI. Can yo...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer support for additional NEWCOPY options under 'Program Operations View'

We need below additional NEWCOPY options added under Program Operations View:1. Last NewCopy Time 2. NEWCOPY Success Count 3. NEWCOPY Fail Count
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

CICS Identify QMGR from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB

Please change CICS function 'Identify QMGR' from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB, for detail please reference case num:TS009163460
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Warning message if last transaction is removed from a CPSM transaction group.

When deleting transactions from a CPSM transaction group or moving a transaction definition from one CPSM transaction group to another (Take), if the transaction group become empty generate a warning message/SM Explorer Alert that the group is emp...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Flexible hostname lookup when using a proxy

Flexible hostname lookup is needed when using a proxy. CICS acting as a client can consume services/APIs on both internal (customer) and external (internet) networks. When consuming external services, CICS needs to route requests out through a pro...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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