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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Improve Sysplex Distributer / DVIPA routing for CICSplex

Today, a TCP/IP connection request comes to a specific DVIPA definition in TCP/IP and is essentially routed “round robin” across eligible LPARs and CICS regions. We want CPSM to influence which CICS region / LPAR is assigned to new DVIPA connectio...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer not able to export information to a file

Display of the system parameter (SIT values) dosn't offer the possibility to export the content in a file to be later on managed.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Using CICS DFHWBPW for normal password change

Our idea is to use CICS password change program DFHWBWB, which is normaly triggered when the passwort expires, also for the normal password change process.We tried it and it works in principle, when using any URL like http://serverurl/DFHWBPW. Wha...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHBRNSF data set counter

Customer feels CICS should automatically reset the counter and not require customers to take an outage of their region(s) because of message DFHBR0509 being issued, when the DFHBRNSF dataset counter is nearing its limit.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS - ICSF callable Interface to use transaction owner's userid instead of CICS region userid

We need urgently an interface to propagate the transaction user as the checked userid in CSFSERV and CSFKEYS classes .In our environment RACF access control is used for RACF classes CSFSERV and CSFKEYS for permitting technical userids to associate...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Allow DFHDPLOY to discretely use BAS or CSD based on the request

When requesting a CICS BUNDLE DEPLOY or UNDEPLOY via Urban Code Deploy, the DFHDPLOY step that is executed should only access CSD or BAS as specified in the Urban Code Deploy step. Current behavior is that when we try to DEPLOY a BUNDLE to CSD, DF...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs full "import/export" capability

CICS Explorer should have the ability to retrieve/"download" bundle definitions (in fact, all definitions) from a live, running region (presumably from the CSD or CPSM repository) in a format that would allow the bundle to be edited/revised and re...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS TS GLUE XFCFROUT should pass the UEP_FC_SYSID from REMOTESYSTEM file control definition if SYSID not specified

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS users collecting dependency data need to determine if EXEC CICS file control requests are function shipped to a remote system. If the EXEC CICS file control command specifies the SYSID(xxxx) parameter, the CI...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

There is a need for a new GLUE point in the DISABLE LIBRARY processing

When a user issues a DISABLE LIBRARY command to CICS (either directly, or indirectly via a DISABLE BUNDLE) then one of CICS' obligations is to de-allocate the library. While Xpediter maintains an open handle against the DCB there is no possible wa...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Return profile attributes in INQUIRE PROFILE command

The INQUIRE PROFILE command should return all the attributes of a CICS profile definition.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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