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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Ability to choose multiple items for a certain policy rule

I would like to have the ability to select multiple items for a certain policy rule in the policy wizard. The threshold value is then applied to the sum of all the selected items.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Cics Liberty Double Log Output

At the moment it is only possible to print the output of Liberty to JES or to ZFS. We have the situation, that the developers prefer the ZFS (Unix/in their world Linux) Output, but we want to archive the output into Beta Systems BETA 92 Tool. This...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Liberty Profile applicaiton activation at once

We have the following lines in the server.xml: <config monitorInterval="5s" updateTrigger="polled"/><applicationMonitor dropins="dropins" dropinsEnabled="false" pollingRate="5s" updateTrigger="disabled"/> 1) As we are using the applica...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Reused L8 TCB causes MQ shutdown stall

Customer is encountering MQ shutdown stall issue when an WMQ task has completed succssfully and the L8 TCB concerned is then subsequently used by another non-WMQ long running task.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

EXEC CICS VERIFY TOKEN does not support mutual authentication

EXEC CICS VERIFY TOKEN does not work with our client application
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Update WEB RECEIVE API to work directly with 64 bit container

The WEB RECEIVE API does not work directly with 64 bit containers.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

PSCHWAB1109-1294 CICS health status to Sysplex Distributor (WLM)

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: yogesh.parchure@schwab.comSubmitters Company: Charles Schwab PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PSCHWAB1109-1294 CICS health status to Sysplex Distributor (WLM)Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Technol...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CICS Explorer Allow Multiple External Connection Link Customization via the .ini file

Currently you can only customize CICS Explorer via the plugin_customization.ini file with One connection file link. We would like the ability to add multiple connection links to the plugin_customization.ini file, so that we could have a link to a ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Reduce task switching overhead for inbound web service requests

When web service message security is used to flow user credentials to CICS it results in two pipeline alias transactions. This maybe necessary in cases where authorization is required for the transport identity (e.g RACF user id mapped from client...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

All CICS transaction abends should be written to CICS Performance Monitoring fields (ABCODEO and ABCODEC)

It was discovered that particular CICS transaction abends are not written to the CICS performance monitoring records (e.g. ASP1, ASP7 etc etc). The monitoring fields ABCODEO and ABCODEC remain blank despite the fact that the task got an abend. Thi...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered