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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Possibility to have RNL=No as CICS SIT parameter for System ENQ

Customer KMD A-S, BALLERUPCENTR asked me to open the RFE on his behalf.He is requesting that the global ENQ is routed on certan LPAR only, to avoid unnecessary traffic going to plex, consuming unnessasary resources. and possible increasing respons...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer upgrade currently a Pre-Req for a CICS Upgrade

Currently a CICS Explorer Upgrade is a Pre-Req for a CICS Upgrade. We would like it if CICS Upgrades did not include this pre-req, and for the CICS Explorer Release to not be directly tied to the CICS Release
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Work Load Manager

Dear Sirs.We, from Serasa in Brasil, are happy users of the WLM z/OS component.In this very moment, we are trying to filter a set of CICS business transactions using the characteristics, as defined at CICS subsystem Classification Rules. By severa...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS Task policy at transaction level

The scope of the task policy (described in the link - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.4.0/scenarios/policy_platform/topics/creating_and_editing_policies.html) is limited to entry program. The rule is applicable to only and all...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CICS/Liberty: DFHSJ* messages should be written to JESMSGLG

Messages DFHSJ* are written to MSGUSR. As long as these messages are not written to JESMSGLG, it is not possible to create alerts when the some messages pop up.DFHSJ* messages created by the Liberty Server should be written to JESMSGLG as well.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

SMF SOCIPHER is needed for outbound TCP/IP connections.

We need to review SMF on a regular basis to identify if TCP/IP connections were encrypted. The SOCIPHER field is great for inbound connections. Not only does it give the actual cipher used for the connection, if a cipher number is present (>000...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Ability to override parameters in a JVM profile when sharing between JVM servers

We share CICS LIBERTY ports across many LIBERTY CICS regions and also share the same LIBERTY.jvmprofile. CICS Liberty does not allow Shared Port supports for IBM Health Checker, Debug port -Xrunjdwp and using single LIBERTY.jvmprofile rendering th...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS Explorer DFHWBAAX - Mainframe Version Control Enhancements

We currently use the DFHWBAAX and DFHWBERX URM's to perform CICS Explorer Version Control Checking from the Mainframe. Within the current architecture the "Approved" list of CICS Explorer releases is contained in the DFHWBAAX program. We want to b...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Provide additional information for E.C.FORMATTIME

The FORMATTIME is able to return a time and date string in RFC3339-format. But this is always returned in UTC and sometimes it might be helpful to have that in local format or a certain timezone. Therefore please add a parameter LOCAL or TIMEZONE(...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Autoinstall for CEE RDO Group programs

Allow the 1600 program definitions in RDO group CEE to be autoinstalled.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

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