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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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    When allocation/open fails DFHFC0500, display conflict information somewhere

    Right now, when this situation occurs, it is sometimes difficult and labor intensive to figure out why this happened. Sometimees requiring scanning SMF data, looking at dumps, etc. Would be helpful to display the conflict information (usually zOS ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Cics should support HTTP/2

    there is many vulnerabilities in HTTP/1.1 and it will be nice if CICS do support HTTP/2
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Make CICS WEB interface threadsafe and optimize throughput and response time in CICS and maybe save a little CPU

    IBM has an undocumented fix to the CICS WEB interface that can optimize throughput and response time plus maybe save a little CPU.The fix is very simple, as it is just a change of the definitions of three WEB interface modules which get added the ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

    The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
    almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Add fields to the CPSM CICSRGN Resource Table so as to be able to compute the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval ratio

    This would make it easier to monitor the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval Ratio. As it is right now, MSGUSR for each CICS region has to be scanned for the DFHDS0102 message. The items needed to calculate this value, or the value itself, could be put int...
    9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Functionality already exists

    TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

    In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

    Document changes even in security PTFs

    When changes are made under the scope of a security PTF, that change is not documented, and this may cause problems for the clients (example: when userid or password is wrong, the message that is issued has changed with a security PTF, and as the ...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

    Add to Cics policies the ability to include or exclude specific transaction names.

    We need to specify Cics policies to cancel transactions that exceed a specific response time, excluding some long-running ones or those with another allowed threshold. For example, all A* transactions can last for 5 seconds at most, except for ABC...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

    Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SOAP Web Services

    One of the 'issues' with CICS WS SOAP based services is that XSD validation needs to switched off in live Prodn operation due to the overheads involved. Could though the use of OSR's (Optimised Schema Defns) help here and provide a route by which ...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Support External JWTs in CICS

    Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
    10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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