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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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IBM Explorer for z/OS is not compatible with macOS Big Sur

IBM Explorer for z/OS 3.2 which runs on Eclipse Photon v4.8 is not compatible with the new macOS release, Big Sur. more info can be found on : https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6369275
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Amendment in DFHWB0112I XMEOUT parameters/Message inserts

CICS doesn't really need an additional check (i.e. option 3) for secured SSL connection (HTTPS) while web domain initialization. Instead, this should be checked during HTTP authentication for the requests that are made using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or ...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Define a default cipher list used for CICS outbound webservices

Problem: We are running CICS webservices for years. For outbound webservices we haven't defined URIMAPs, so we were using the default cipher list getting from system SSL in the past.Now we have the need to use stronger ciphers. Solving this proble...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Excluding transactions from a policy

ICBC wants to use the policy to limit the DB2 requests, CPU time and storage, but they haven't adopt CICS cloud yet, then they need to use policy with region scope. And there are some transactions in their system need to long run, or need to acces...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Make CICS Time-of-Day Viewable in CICS Explorer and the CPSM WUI for each CICS TS address space

In supporting a large environment (500+ CICS regions) running at different CICS Time-of-Day, it would be very valuable to be able to view the CICS Time-of-Day in CICS Explorer or the CPSM WUI. TICTOC is used to alter the time of day for some regio...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Change Default values for DFHAID Copybook

We need the defaults changed in the DFHAID copybook to be compatible with GIT/DBB. The special characters are not round tripping from GIT to z/OS for DBB builds. In z/OS it displays as this "double bar" 02 DFHCLRP PIC X VALUE IS '¦'.In GIT this is...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Identify the jobnames of the batch requests via EXCI.

Customer would like to identify the jobnames of the batch requests via EXCI. He suggested to put this information in the PHAPPLID (APPLID from previous hop data) field and additionaly in the DFHSN1500 message.Customer has pointed that there is a W...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

CICS/Liberty prevent immediately open of port

CICS/Liberty should open TCP/IP ports of the JVM before the application services are initialized.This maybe implemented as an option to be activated.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers

It would be good if a policy could detect (and possibly purge) the tasks that use larger containers of a specified size as it is possible to do with those that occupy more than xGb of User or Shared GDSA
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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