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TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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IBM COBOL Support on TXSeries on x86 Linux

Currently in Linux x86 platform, TXSeries only support COBOL-IT and MF COBOL. And ShanDong Cooperate League customer is requesting IBM COBOL support on TXSeries Linux x86.
almost 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Specifying user option -u for cicsadmin utility

1. BoC customer expects to specify user on this command cicsadmin utility for user security consideration. For example, they expect only administration user can do MAXSERVER/MINSERVER tuning in runtime by cicsadmin utility in production env, while...
almost 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Track transaction abend from COR to AOR

#How to track transaction abend from COR to AOR# Customer scenario: After one AOR's task is forced, ABEND is also generated in COR sometimes, but it is not possible to know which TASK of which AOR is.
almost 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Userexit 7 for IPIC connections

Userexit 7 should be working also with IPIC connections to CICS zOS that we can send RACF user credentials for verification to CICS zOS through TXSeries from a application on our windows CICS clients. As an alternative IBM Communications server sh...
almost 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support missing DFHBMPFF and DFHBMPCR constants in TXseries DFHBMSCA include/copybook files

Support missing DFHBMPFF and DFHBMPCR constants in TXseries DFHBMSCA include/copybook files
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

SDF II repeating blocks support

The cicsmap command does not support the SDF II repeating blocks feature, therefore we are unable to create symbolic maps resulting in the same data structures like on z/OS.
almost 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries AUTOCONNECT attribute for IPIC connection

Customer hope that TX have AUTOCONNECT attribute for IPIC connection, TS does.
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Support CICS application-provided SOAP faults for inbound web services

TXseries does not support Channels with inbound web services. Thus web service programs must be called with a COMMAREA.
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Support contract-first inbound web service generation

Currently, TXseries supports the generation of a WSDL and WSBIND file from a program structure file for inbound SOAP web services. This contract-last generation is provided by the DFHLS2WS program available in the z/OS Transaction Server and TXser...
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Extend CICS applications as web services in TXSeries

Currently COMMAREA handling for inbound SOAP webservices in TXseries is limited to equally-sized request/response structues only.
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration