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TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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Enhancement to TXSeries monitoring facility

1: MONQ doesn't get cleared automatically2: There is no Date field in the Report3: We can not provide size to create multiple MONQ based on file size.
over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support application bundles

There are more and more application in ICBC. They required whether we can provide a bundle feature like CICS TS. Then they can install their application using one package. It should be easier to managed. This feature can work with web admin single...
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

JVM Server and JCICS supported in TXSeries

ICBC pain point on TXSereis migration, they must compile all application, and test all of them after migration, it's a big effort for customer. For the adapter to Oracle DB, need to compile the adapter everytime when migration. Jave has no problem...
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries v8.1 Linux support for IBMCOBOL

IBM COBOL compiler is available only on AIX platform today and so there is no support for IBM COBOL on TXSeries for Multiplatforms V8.1 on Linux. The COBOL support that we have on x86 Linux is only with Micro Focus Server Express COBOL. IBM should...
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

change the region pool,own share memory,task share pool to one sharememory segamentation.

Now,TXSeries application can use 0x5/0x6/0x7/0x8/0x9 total 1280G memory with CIPC_SHMBASE and LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA setting.But with the business growth,app need more memory to use.Custumer want TXSeries to change the region pool,own share memory,task...
almost 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
21 days ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Submitted

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
2 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Show actual start time of the active tasks on "cicsadmin list task" command output

When we check the active tasks by using cicsadmin command, we noticed that the displayed start time of the tasks isn't correct. Instead of the actual start time, current time and date information, which belongs to the time when we run cicsadmin co...
11 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
about 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

The usage of cicstermu from a remote system using SSH

It would be great for us if there is a way to use "cicstermu" from a remote system using SSH. This would give us an opportunity to automate actions to be launched from our management server. We can execute the shell script containing the cicstermu...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Future consideration