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TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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Send history of all completed TX tasks to Tivoli Monitoring with detailed task information as seen on the MONQ records

Currently Tivoli Monitoring for TX produces task history records only for those tasks which happen to be active precisely on the expiration of monitoring interval. Thus only a small fraction of all tasks. We would like to see all completed tasks i...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Flow User credentials between TOR/AOR following CRTE command execution

Case TS008524302 (Defining a TOR/AOR connection definition) identified our need to configure “TXSeries for Multiplatform V9.1.02” RHEL Linux installation to support both a Terminal Owning Region (TOR) and Application Owning Region (AOR) was identi...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

dynamically allocating memory for region pool and task shared pool

Please see the responses from the PMR below: IBM Update10/17/16 5:19 PMWe understand the customer update. However, dynamically allocating the memory for region pool and task shared pool is not supported for CICS environment. We verified the code a...
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

cicsdp process sleep for ever after it reaches the maximum retries and have to restart cics region for ITM KT8agent connect

If the ITM Kt8 agent is not available, cicsdp process sleeps for ever after it reaches the maximum retries.The customer has to restart region to make cicsdp to reconnect to ITM kt8 agent. It is current design.
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

The USERID should be always processed in upper case

Actually the USERID received from CTG requests, INBOUND Web services and the CESL/CESN transactions are kept in the regions as they are entered by the client application or in the terminal. We expect that the USERID value is always in upper case.
almost 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

TXSeries IPIC heartbeat function

The CICS IPIC heartbeat function discovers and reports connectivity problems with idle connections by sending a heartbeat message over a connection during periods when no other messages are being transmitted.
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER unimplemented

We need to use these CICS documented command:EXEC CICSWEB WRITEHTTPHEADER()NAMELENGTH()SESSTOKEN()VALUE()VALUELENGTH()END-EXEC
about 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Output error messages on TXSeries console when ECI request is abnormally ended

Target System: TXSeries and CTGMany customer uses ECI request to call applications on TXSeries from CTG application.We found that TXSeries does NOT output any message when ECI request is abnormally ended in a specific situation. That is when mirro...
about 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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