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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Extend functions of program DFHDPLOY

DFHDPLOY ist a very effective way to refresh bundles in CICS using the CPSM API. It provides a perfect way to do this for a whole CICSPlex, or defined groups of systems.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

CICS - Threadsafe Modules for Web Support

Is it possible to make all or some of the modules listed below Threadsafe? DFHWBUNDFHWBXNDFHWBADFHWBBLIEYU9XLOP
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add the WebSphere MQSeries GET number in the policy specification

We would like to define a policy related to the WMQ messages rate (i.e. temporary start a new CICS region or MQ listener in an existing region from an event message).WMQ queue processing may imply side effects such as high number of messages comin...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Add DEFINESOURCE to TRANDUMP

When CICS encounters a Transaction Abend it checks the TRANDUMP table. If the Abend is new is creates a default entry.The issue is being able to distinguish between User defined TRANDUMP entries and the automatically CICS System defined TRANDUMP e...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

UNLOCK FILE requests must be recorded to allow IIDR/VSAM to stop tracking READ UPDATEs in memory when REWRITE is not done

UNLOCK FILE requests should be logged by CICS TS to the file's LOGREPLICATE logsteam when the exclusive control lock is released for a READ with UPDATE request.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add elapsed time limit to CICS Transaction Server policies

To be able to have a transaction cancelled when it reaches a time threshold no matter what it is doing in the CICS region.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Control CICS HTTP TRACE by SIT parm and supplied transaction

Currently the HTTP TRACE can only be disabled by creating a loadmodule called DFHWBMTH and placing in the DFHRPL as described in http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v5r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.cics.ts.internet.doc%2Ftopics%2Fdfhtl_httptra...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

use dynamic substitution for group and list in the CSD

provide variables for list and groups names plus resource definitions within the CSD then allow dynamic substitution of those variables at CICS startup and resource install
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Keep CICS cipher defaults up-to-date

CICS RDO TCPIPService and URImap definition that use SSL work with certain default ciphers (strongciphers.xml). The default ciphers do not contain the latest/strongest cipher standards which are available on z/OS.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

W3C SOAP/JMS with CICS Webservices

We are using the W3C SOAP/JMS spec which represents the target service using a <SOAPJMS_targetService> element. This specification did not exist when the MQ/JMS support was first written in CICS, which means we cannot use it. When receiving ...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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