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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Explorer perspectives/plug ins need to fully support all interfaces

If CICS Explorer is going to be the strategic direction for managing CICS, then it must fully support all capabilities of the various 'other' management tools.For example, today even with Explorer 5.1 it is not possible from the SM Administration ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Run Remote Java JCICS calls from Eclipse desktop when developing new Java applications.

We would like the ability for our developers to be able to test and debug their CICS Java applications on the desktop and have the ability for the JCICS calls to be routed to a CICS regions to run and then come back with the data to the desktop. J...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Issue a message when a CICS maintained Shared Data Table (CMT) is full

When a user maintained shared data table (UMT) is full, the request fails and a DFHFC0432 message is produced. When a CMT is full, the request will not fail because it will be written to the backing file, but it would be useful for a message to be...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

We have a requirement to retain the installation data on a VERIFYX call

A recent change at RSU1412 level has resulted in failure of passwordless calls to ICHRIX01. An exit we use - ICHRIx01 requires that the INSTLN - Installation Data - is passed to it. Removal of the INSTLN from the VERIFYX call within CICS means tha...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Need a way to determine CICS SIT parms after startup.

For debugging new installations or for problem determination at any time, it would be very convenient to determine after CICS/TS startup what cics tables suffixes and DHFSIT parameters were being used for this execution of CICS. This could be done...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS TCPIPSERVICE - RETRY needed

When doing an IPL, sometimes CICS is started before TCP/IP is fully up and running. This results in TCPIPSERVICEs being unable to start.--- This RFE is to add two parameters to the TCPIPSERVICE definition:1. RETRY_COUNT to specify how many times C...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CTS 5.4 EXCI need BROWSE Container function

cics V5.4 delivers long anticipated channel and containers over EXCI. While this is new ground for batch applications, we have existing cics applications which deliver a set of containers to ECI c# and Java client code, via cics transaction gatewa...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support for OpenID client feature in CICS Liberty

We understand from our discussions with IBM (Nigel Williams) that Liberty supports the OpenID client feature, but that this is not yet formally supported as part of Liberty running under CICS.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Improve CICS start up checking of access to Category 1 Transactions

When a CICS region starts up, it performs a check that the region id has access to every Category 1 transaction however, as soon as one is found without access, message DFHXS1113 is issued reporting the lack of access, a dump is taken and the regi...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS MQ Bridge configuration

The CICS-MQ bridge should have more flexible configuration of a CICS user program name being invoked by DFHMQBP0/DFHMQBP3 - now a CICS user program name can be only sent as a part of message and there is no option for specifying the predefined CIC...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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