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TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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IBM COBOL Support on TXSeries on x86 Linux

Currently in Linux x86 platform, TXSeries only support COBOL-IT and MF COBOL. And ShanDong Cooperate League customer is requesting IBM COBOL support on TXSeries Linux x86.
almost 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Specifying user option -u for cicsadmin utility

1. BoC customer expects to specify user on this command cicsadmin utility for user security consideration. For example, they expect only administration user can do MAXSERVER/MINSERVER tuning in runtime by cicsadmin utility in production env, while...
almost 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Track transaction abend from COR to AOR

#How to track transaction abend from COR to AOR# Customer scenario: After one AOR's task is forced, ABEND is also generated in COR sometimes, but it is not possible to know which TASK of which AOR is.
almost 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries 8.2ff: Logging Task Number of CICSAS Process ID in CPLI.out

To aid in correlating various log files the format of TD Queue CPLI (written to file 'CPLI.out') needs to be amended: Instead / in addition of the cicsas process id (pid) the task number (EIBTASKN) would be more robust. 219 CICS_EMP_FID_PROCESSID ...
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

CEDF: Routing between CICS regions

Hi, I have reconfigured the CEDF transaction to be routed to a remote CICS region (from the TOR) as follows:cicsupdate -c td -r CI01TOR CEDF Permanent=no Dynamic=yes RemoteName=" CEDF" I can see that the transaction gets executed on the remote CIC...
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

TXSeries & PL/1: change PL/1 CICS PP output to have meaningful listing to show actual code lines more clearly

Currently CICS pre-processor replaces processed EXEC CICS statements with a commented replacement line followed by the actual replacement code implementing the actual TXSeries API call This results in somewhat imprecise source code listings, where...
almost 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

TXSeries should support combination of IBM-858 Servercodepage and Flag UCTrans=Yes

Flag UCTRANS=Yes imposes to uppercase all entered characters. This doesn't work with codepage IBM-858 for characters with ASCII-Code >127, as AIX doesn't support IBM-858. Therefore TXSeries can't perform correct converstion to uppercase by usin...
almost 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Password verification for cicsxapasswd

I'd like to suggest some sort of password verification for the cicsxapasswd command in TXSeries. Currently, you only get one chance to enter the password that you wish to encrypt. If you make a mistake, you need to redo the XAOpen string and re-ru...
almost 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

Userexit 7 for IPIC connections

Userexit 7 should be working also with IPIC connections to CICS zOS that we can send RACF user credentials for verification to CICS zOS through TXSeries from a application on our windows CICS clients. As an alternative IBM Communications server sh...
almost 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CKTI starts with specific user under TXSeries

CKTI is using defaul CICSUSER at start on TXSeries. I'd like start CKTI transaction with different user
about 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration