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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Named Counter API Commands need security

CICS has a series of API commands to utilise Named Counters: DEFINE (D)COUNTER DELETE (D)COUNTER GET (D)COUNTER QUERY (D)COUNTER REWIND (D)COUNTER UPDATE (D)COUNTER Looking in the documentation: Access to named counter pools - IBM Documentation in...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Need Capability of deploying to more than one target application region from Manage Bundle Deployment

We have Multiple LPARS and Multiple CICS Regions (200+). We ar exploring the uses of CICS Managed Bundle Deployment with CICSPLEX. We need to ability to specify more than one cics application region in the pom.xml document. Each LPAR has several e...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS Task Policy to handle poison message and MQ Backouts

CICS Task Policy for MQ Backout Count handle Poison messages. Task Policy for MQ, if Backout Threshold exceeded in the MQMD put the message to the MQ Backout Queue Defined in the MQ Header and Abend Task. If no Backout Queue defined, the task beha...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Time Stamp Display Format (GMT/Local)

We are requesting the ability to choose the display format of the Time Stamp in CICS Explorer - Completed Tasks to be either GMT or Local time. We would like to publish reports on Completed Task but with a Time Stamp "hard-coded" as GMT will confu...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Make CICS WUI dataset EYUWREP optional

The documentation at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/configuring/cpsm/eyuadif.html states that the EYUWREP file "contains the Web User Interface server view and menu definitions". I believe this includes any user groups...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Eliminate the key limitation for CF Data Tables

CICS limits the key length to 16bytes for CF Data Tables. This limits many of our files(read only kind) not eligible for CFDT. We like IBM to eliminate the key length limitation for the CFDT.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need the ability to perform tailored actions after CESN/L

When a user signs onto CICS using CESN or CESL, the ability for CICS to invoke a new transaction immediately rather than just a message that their sign on was successful after which they have to clear the screen and invoke their next transaction.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS Explorer needs consistent number decimal places in summary views

CICS Explorer needs to display averaged values in an aggregated view with a consistent number of decimal places. This could be a fixed or user specified value. Potentially if ALL average values in a field are exact numbers no decimal places could ...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

SSL refresh command for CICS Liberty

When a new cert is added to the keyring, we have to manually cycle the jvms for each of our cics regions. We need a way to either automatically update the cert cache for the liberty jvms or run a CICS command to refresh the jvm cert cache.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow symbol substitution in CICS reading the LE runtime options

Provide symbol substitution in CICS process the LE Runtime Options module to allow for abstraction of certain values outside the module. For instance, the CEE_DMPTARG value specifying a USS Directory Path in the JVMProfile can then be substituted ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

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