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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

CICS manual states that ASKTIME function cannot be used with NUMPROC(PFD) compiler option.This is because ASKTIME sets a F as final byte in signed EIBTIME, instead of a correct C. PMR and RFE to the CICS team, to get a fix for this are rejected, a...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Expand recordsize in File Control Program for VSAM

Currently you can't have a VSAM record bigger than 32767 bytes because the record size is in a half word in the File Control Program. Expanding the record will allow us to hold more data in a single record. It will allow you to use channel and con...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS 5.* (DFHMEU)

CICS TS 5.* Message Editing utility (DFHMEU)
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar to avoid 31bit memory constrains

Rigth now, we can only run approx 6-7 JVMSERVERs due to 31bit memory constrains It would be really helpful to be able to Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar allowing to increase the amount of JVMSERVERs per CICS Region.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Stop/Quiesce Shared TS Servers in a controlled manner

There is currently no facility to quiesce activity in Shared TS servers in order to shut them down in a controlled manner. A CANCEL command is required to stop Shared TS servers.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for 'dynamic' JSON content (same as exists for XML)

Please add support for 'dynamic' content within a JSON RESTful API payload. This would be conceptually then same as the existing support for dynamic SOAP XML content (which uses the 'xsd:any' XML schema type). This may require the JSON Assistant t...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Add EYUVC1294W (Region Timeout) Information Detail

Currently if a region in a Plex is having an issue that causes either a GUI display or CPSM Batch API timeout the WUI displays a EYUVC1294W message that details which region is causing the problem. We do not have a messagelike that in CICS Explore...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

DFHPI0508 possible if all sessions to remote system are in use. CICS does not queue request.

This RFE being submitted as a result of investigative APAR PH20753 being closed. The text of that APAR was: You experience DFHPI0508 errors when trying to run a tran involving RequestStreams that need to route over to another system. CICS will try...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow CICS resource security to also add a function component.

Currently, if a user is permitted to a specific resource, they can use that resource regardless of context. An example may be that a user is authorized to write to, or read from a transient data queue as it may form part of an application. I may w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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