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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU6.2 to TCP/IP

Please enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU62 sessions to TCP/IP (for those cases where the following DTP Commands are used): EXEC CICS® ALLOCATE EXEC CICS CONNECT PROCESS EXEC CICS CONVERSE CONVID EXEC CICS CONVERSE SESSION EXEC CICS SEND SES...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Need ability to link CICS WLM Quiesce status to zOS WLMHealth

When a CICS region is quiesced in CICS Plex System Management Work Load Management, the region is seen as unhealthy by CICSPlex System Management so it will be much less likely to to route work to it from other CICS regions in the same CICSPlex th...
over 1 year 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 Explorer Install requires additional function

When installing BAS definitions using CICS Explorer, the user can select which CICS regions to perform the install on but has no ability to specify additional options. (See attachment "Explorer Install"). However on the WUI several additional opti...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

CPSM API Timeout/Retry if MAS cycling

CPSM API programs throw an error if a MAS is cycling since the state of the MAS is indeterminate and CPSM times out waiting for a response. The timeout error causes our API program to fail. We would like the CPSM API to be more tolerant of transit...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Export/Import/Share the whole user environment

Provide a mechanism to export the whole of the users working environment. Today we can export import: • Connections• Resource Views Today you can also load connections from a shared location. It would be nice to be able to Export/Import the whole ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to change dynamically the interval that message DFHDS0102I is issued

In CICS TS 5.6, message DFHDS0102I was introduced to show the QR TCB CPU Dispatch Ratio. This message is issued, by default, every 5 minutes. To change the frequency of this message it is necessary to specify INITPARM=(DFHQRCPU='nn') as a system i...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

make CPSM routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe

Please make the dynamic routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

TCPIP Session identification

Problem: When a TCP/IP session is established with a CICS region there is nothing in any of the CICS logs to indicate that this has happened. There are messages generated when an error occurs during session establishment (such as DFHWB0732) but no...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

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