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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Explorer: Workloads CICS routing

View all routing regions and see which workloads they are routing for.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

PREPEND ('add before') option in the PUT CONTAINER command

Note : PREPEND = ' add (something) to the beginning of something else.' Opportunity : Currently CICS TS supports PUT CONTAINER with the APPEND option. This is extremely useful when concatenating data structures into a single Container - and is als...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS storage protection related to PMR: 88893 112 848

We could further tighten CICS storage protection for this particular case by changing the dsa type for the tgodr subpool, as I described above. What Klaus has encountered is a problem because there happened to be a section of esdsa after the eudsa...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Use more Z/OS symbolics in CICS definitions

Some symbolic variables are used in RDO definitions. These can make defining resources easier. Some of the most useful ones would be LPAR and MQ Manager
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICSPlex System Manager WUI - security weakness

Security Auditors have found and tested access to the CPSM WUI, and found a loophole in the messages returned.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow DFHRPL libraries to be placed in EAS space of EAV volumes

From IBM CICS TS 5.1 INFOCENTER: ‘Do not place any CICS DFHRPL libraries, such as SDFHLOAD, in the extended addressing space (EAS) of an extended address volume (EAV) DASD volume. If DFHLDSVC attempts to access any DFHRPL data sets from the EAS, a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Issue DFHSI8431 equivalent message during second-stage startup PLT processing

When multiple second-stage startup PLT programs are specified, there is no way to track progress through the list unless the programs issue their own console messages. Diagnosing issues that happen during this stage can be difficult without knowin...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Improvements when handling WS-AT requests in a very constrained system.

This customer is using the HOGAN application, which is popular in banking. This application uses WS-AT for some of the inbound requests. These result in a CPIH being initially attached and then the WS-AT context switch occurs and an HSOA task runs...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow CICS to query/report true status of Liberty application

Currently, CICS falsely claims Liberty application is available when it actually is only reporting that the bundle has been copied to "Installed Applications". If the Liberty server fails to actually install and enable the application, or if the L...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Support of JAX-WS in CICS/Liberty

Wüstenrot is currently using CICS Web Services already. They also plan to use Java in CICS/Liberty for new projects . Doing that they would also like to use JAX-WS in Liberty which is currently not supported.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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