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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Provide a CICS API to generate an encrypted RACF Passticket based upon a Kerberos token.

Using the CICS API (RFE 38916) to verify a Kerberos token in CICS it is also necessary to generate a RACF Passticket for a certain application using the Userid within the Kerberos token. Providing a CICS API would massively ease the adoption of th...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

zFS file attributes and status info in table view in z/OS Explorer

Show zFS files in a table like view (similar to other CICS Explorer views) including their attributes
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Allow setting a context with a central text field rather than selection

add a central text field that allows to set the context scope quickly instead of selecting a region/ group/ etc. from the other views
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

MFA/2FA authentication for z/OS unix file explorer

IBM Explorer for z/OS not connect to FTP connections for when using 2 factor authentication.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Support wild-cards in the entry point of policy definitions

The customer has thousands of transactions & programs on their environment, and they would like to define a policy rule to monitor them. Without wild-cards support, they need to input the program name one by one, and define multiple entry poin...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Have message DFHTD0386 issue an action prompt

We recently encountered a situation where a Region's intrapartition dataset exceeded a 2 GB limit. A transaction was experiencing a recursive abend situation on a failure to write to a TDQ. As we investigated further, we found this message in the ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Supply CICS API for verification of Kerberos tokens

Provide a CICS API to verify Kerberos tokens and map them to a RACF userid to be run under in CICS.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

DFHEISUP delivered with RMODE24 and is 7MB in size

Load module DFHEISUP is supplied by CICS with AMODE31, RMODE24. The load module itself takes up 7M below the line storage. Thiscan create problems for sites who are constrained in their belowthe line storage.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

make the tn3270 tcp address available using exec cics inquire terminal

we are running with autoinstall of tn3270 terminals. we need to be able to supply to some of our applications the tcpip address of the terminal that initiated the task. this information as available in the TCTTE in a field called TCTE_TPADDR. Maki...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Modify MQMONITOR support for APPLID

The MQMONITOR definitions support substituting &APPLID in the Qname but only if the &APPLID appears as a prefix. We have over 200 queue definitions where APPLID is the suffix. We'd like to see this support extended to allow the &APPLID...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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