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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Dedicated Timeout Parm for WEB CONVERSE/WEB RECEIVE

We currently use WEB CONVERSE to get data back from remote services via HTTP. We have run into issues whereby system failures on the destination side will not send a response resulting in the CICS task to indefinitely wait until intervention occur...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHDPLOY More Functionality, i.e. FILE operations in CICS

Working with DFHDPLOY is quite good,makes handling of CICS-manipulation much easier.We currently searching for the Ability to CLOSE / DISABLE a vsam file andOPEN / ENABLE it after reloading.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

GMTRAN DISCONNECT Option Expansion

When using the default CICS signon program, a user is able to clear the screen using ESC and run transactions under the default CICS user ID. Using End/PF3 terminates the session, but clearing the screen using the ESC key does not. We would like t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Add support for using HTTP-Headers in WS Pipeline

Currently we do not have an official way to specify a http-Header in an outbound web service. The way to specify this as an extension to the soapaction-header is no official way.Please provide an API
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Web requester AT-TLS aware

Outbound web requester (SOAP) EXEC CICS INVOKE WEBSERVICE will use CICS SSL support if HTTPS is the protocol scheme in the URI. Shop standard is to have AT-TLS policy look for outbound HTTP requests to servers and create SSL session to server. In ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Enhance CICS policy to capture all CICS abend task

Currently, CICS policy system rule (rule type = Transaction abend) can only capture UNHANDLED abend task. If application program has EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND logic to handle abend, the abend will not be treated as an abnormal end of a task and will ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Limit the amount for outgoing parallel connections via URIMAP

For each implementation of connection pooling in other systems, also in the distributed world, you are capable to limit the amount of parallel connections. This is something we would like to use for the connection pool of an URIMAP. The requiremen...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS record based channel containers/queues

CICS should support an alternative or enhancement to channel containers that is record based rather than byte based. These would be similar to temporary storage queues, except they would have the same visibility and lifetime rules as any other cha...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

CICS Policy for Container (Channel) Size

We have a case where Client passes a Channel into CICS that is rather huge - 38,DB7,93Cx bytes. This drives the region short on storage on the GET CONTAINER, impacting other region workload. It would be beneficial to have a CICS Task Storage polic...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Functionality already exists

CICS TCPIP Ports to reset to CLOSE status whenever TCPIP server crashes

The CICS TCPIP Ports needs to automatically reset to CLOSE status whenever TCPIP server crashes.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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