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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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

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...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 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

CICS Explorer ability GLUE Disable / Enable or TRUE

To new copy a program; need to Disable and Enable in the new copy process; presently do it this way: CECI DISABLE PROG(U8D1XMEO) EXITALL <<--can't be done in Explorer CECI SET PROGRAM(U8D1XMEO) NEWCOPY <<-can be done in Explorer CECI...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 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

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

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

Expose CPSM TDQGBL resource table through the CICS GraphQL API.

I would like to extract global transient data statistics from the CPSM TDQGBL resource table using the GraphQL API. In the past I have extracted these statistics using the CMCI API to query the CICSGlobalTDQueueStatistics resource. Having looked a...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future 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

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