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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS should execute the EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO command under the EXECKEY of requesting program to honor CICS storage protection.

Currently when a USERKEY task executes an EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO if the receiving data area is smaller than the container data the program creates a storage violation. Because CICS processes the GET CONTAINER command on behalf of the task, a...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Change monitoring way of elapsed and CPU in policies

Currently, when using policies, calculation of CPU and Elapsed times are done between EXEC CICS commands. So, if previous EXEC CICS never completes, rules are not triggered if CPU or Elapsed are exceeded. It should be interesting to monitor these ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Tolerant Reading web service requesters

Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Retrofit Maven-Plugin for CICS/TS 5.5

Please retrofit Maven Plug-In to CICS/TS 5.5, because we have 2 customers, who need that and have installed CICS/TS 5.5.A migration to 5.6 will be time consuming and is not planned for this year
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Update EXCI to set the return code (R15) at termination

EXCI leaves an unpredictable residual value in Register 15 on exit, which defies all expectations and good coding practices. This behavior is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=considerations-setting-return-code-r15-ter...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Create "Balance" algorithm for CPSM routing

This algorithm can be a new algorithm, or an enhancement to the QUEUE algorithm, in which CPU utilization information can be considered. Avoiding disasters in existing algorithms, we prefer that a new one should be created. This feature can be ena...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record. We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day. There are so many different ...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

New action type for CICS policies

Requesting a new action type for CICS policies: The ability to fail a CICS API request with a RESP/RESP2 code that indicates "REQUEST DENIED BY POLICY"
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between Java and COBOL, which allow to use the same Working Storage via different ILC calls of one COBOL program

We are modernizing our application and during this process the programs are migrated from COBOL to Java. Because it is not possible to do this in one big step, we do it component by component in many small steps. This requires that ICLs work well....
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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