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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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a new command if you have a address that is returned from a exec cics getmain it will be nice to able to ask CICS the size of the getmained area

if you are using getmain shared from one program and you get the address passed to a another program it will be nice if there was a command where you can ask cics storage manager how long the getmained area is from program number 2. cics do know i...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CEMT TSModel SET command

Ability to do a CEMT SET TSModel to change the Expiry or Prefix.Also same in WUI and CICS Explorer. This would allow to do dynamic change, rather than CEDA ALTER and CEDA Install.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS TS - parameter SIT TCPIP (TCPIP = YES) with command online

Good afternoon, Please check the possibility of including the parameter SIT TCPIP (TCPIP = YES) via command online, in flight, without the necessary of stop/start of CICS that is currently needly.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS TS Business Event and Web Services SOAP and JSON Support

CICS TS BE doesn't let you to capture events on EXEC CICS LINK when it is issued by DFH modules with some exceptions and a recent APAR extend to DFHMIRS this capability. I think that it is important let to capture an event though EXEC CICS LINK al...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Bedre soap fault message

we are running with z/os sysplex distributor in front of CICS webservice so we have a lot of CICS that take webservice request. when we are getting a 4038 error from a webservice program on cics we are getting this soap fault<ERROR_MESSAGE> ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add support in URIMAP for hostname with underscore

URIMAP resource definitions do not allow for hostname values that contain an underscore character. This makes CICS unable to interact with some remote services, just because of a naming restriction. Also, this behavior seems inconsistent with an u...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update CICS SPI INQUIRE CONNECTION to provide ATTACHSEC, SECURITYNAME, BINDSECURITY and USEDFLTUSER fields

We have a customer looking for security related information in connection resource; specifically ATTACHSEC. According to CEDA DEFINE the following fields are available in CICS resource definition for Security: SECURITY SEcurityname ==> ATtachse...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

READQ TS with CicsExplorer

Today when right-clicking a TS-Queue in CicsExplorer I can select the actions 'Open', 'Delete' or 'Copy'. I would be very useful if there were an action 'Readq' (like CECI READQ), to show the content of a TS-Queue item.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Timeout parm neeeded on WEB CONVERSE

Need a TIMEOUT interval parameter on the WEB CONVERSE (or WEB RECEIVE) command so that:- interval doesn't have to be set in the transaction definition (via profile) for EVERY transaction in the application that may issue WEB CONVERSE;- interval ca...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Perspective Import/Export

Ability to Import/Export Individual CICS Explorer (installation defined) Perspectives
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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