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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Please Provide a SYSPARM table view in CICS Explorer

I am opening this RFE to bring attention to and focus the request in RFE 100754. The WUI's view of the SYSPARM table at Home > CICS Operations > CICS region operations views > System parameters is MUCH more friendly than what is currently...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Future consideration

Enable JCICS to be mocked easily for unit testing

We need the ability to easily mock the JCICS framework to drive unit testing requirements.
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Automated build process for CICS Web Services (wsbind files), XML Transforms (xsdbind files) and JSON Transforms (jsbind files)

We are working on modernizing our environment by transitioning to an CI/CD Pipeline in conjunction with a modern source code management tool. Currently there is no ability to automate the build of CICS Web Services, XML transform and JSON transfor...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Request that CICS added transaction tracking /origin data for web services routed by CICS RZ domain request streams processin

The explanation is that a new point of origin is created in the AOR when a web service pipeline handler transaction is routed over an MRO connection. as shown in this link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=data-origin-characteristics...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enable options to add Stack affinity at URIMAP when usage is define as Client

As per the current setup, we need to define stack affinity in CICS region JCL to make CICS region to use only a particular TCPIP in case URIMAP usage is defined as CLIENT. This setup is restricting CICS not to use other TCPIPs in case of multiple ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Tolerant Reading web service requesters

Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Retrofit Maven-Plugin for CICS/TS 5.5

Please retrofit Maven Plug-In to CICS/TS 5.5, because we have 2 customers, who need that and have installed CICS/TS 5.5.A migration to 5.6 will be time consuming and is not planned for this year
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Support of CICS HTTP error response in application/json

When CISC as an HTTP server receive a web request via TCPIPSERVICE and send an error response (401 basic auth error, 404 no matching urimap definition...), it does so in text/xml, application/soap+xml, or HTML depending on the media type of the re...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Future consideration