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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Basic authentication for CICS as a web service requester

For CICS as a web service requester with basic authentication defined in URIMAP, we developed a Global exit to activate at exit point XWBAUTH and supply the userID and password through a sequential file set-up and accessible by security team.Since...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS web service requester PIPELINE

CICS Web service requester pipeline does not permit writting into HTTP header. We use SOAPACTION container and set it up in a handler program to insert additional HTTP headers but there should be easier ways like using API WEB WRITE HTTPHEADER to ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

CPSM SYSPARM option to return current parameter value

The CPSM SYSPARM table returns over 200 different values set at CICS initialization. The documentation says the "Current Value" is returned, but it's actually the value established at CICS startup and does not reflect any change that occurs during...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Dynamic Caching

The RFE is for the ability to support dynamic caching in CICS. This was recently discussed at the UK CICS User Group in Manchester and a paper is attached outlining some of the requirements, use cases and outlines how the solution may appear from ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION Threadsafe,

We are trying to cut back on TCB Swaps; I notice INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION to do TCB swap; was wondering if this could be made THREADSAFE? There is a trace entry of TRANSFORMER; not sure what that is.... See trace snippit: L80AT RM 0302 RMLN EXIT SET...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

make INQUIRE REQID Threadsafe

We are interested in making INQ REQID Threadsafe. We are trying to cut back on some TCB swaps; I noticed this in the trace; TCB Swap upon entry exit of INQ REQID; Entry L8; Exit QR; then remains on QR for some time, until next DB2 or MQ request. 9...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CSNC restrict IRC Connect Retry count to 50

CICS/TS MRO current design has no limit to the number of IRC retry CONNECT requests issued by transaction CSNC. This has led to High CPU consumption by hundreds of CICS Regions trying to connect to a stalled CICS Region. It does not seem logical t...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve Sysplex Distributer / DVIPA routing for CICSplex

Today, a TCP/IP connection request comes to a specific DVIPA definition in TCP/IP and is essentially routed “round robin” across eligible LPARs and CICS regions. We want CPSM to influence which CICS region / LPAR is assigned to new DVIPA connectio...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer not able to export information to a file

Display of the system parameter (SIT values) dosn't offer the possibility to export the content in a file to be later on managed.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

DFHBRNSF data set counter

Customer feels CICS should automatically reset the counter and not require customers to take an outage of their region(s) because of message DFHBR0509 being issued, when the DFHBRNSF dataset counter is nearing its limit.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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