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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Statistics for usage of models in autoinstalls

Like other interesting resource parameters, keep a running tab of the usage of terminal models and program models, and report them in their own identifiers as SMF 110(2) records. This can help in housekeeping, and reduce the chances of trying to c...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide native support for web services requester in JSON

Hello, Currently CICS TS does not support web services requester in JSON format as mentioned in manual :https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=services-planning-json-service-requester-application. As a result, our application team has been ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICSPlex WLM should take care of amount of allocated storage in AOR

CPSM does not route requests into a target region having SOS. But if a CICS is close get an SOS it may happen that still new transactions are routed into this CICS.CPSM should put the percentage amount of allocated storage into the WLM decision to...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

In XTDOUT exits I would like to have access to the array of segment address/length pairs of all segments for multi-segment TD messages on the first invocation of the exit.

When the first segment of a multi-segment TD message arrived in my XTDOUT exit I can see in the dump that there's an array with pointers to each segment followed by the length of the segment. All segments appear to also be there even though it the...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Improve Diagnostics for in IPCONN Auto-Install capability

Background : We are in the process of evaluating and deploying the IPCONN Auto-install facility and have constructed a program in line with the published template albeit for z/OS Connect and not CTG. Issue : During the evaluation / verification we...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1

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...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Future consideration

Display CICS Liberty JNDI entries via CICS Explorer/AdminCentre or some other way

We are running Liberty in CICS.Our JNDI entries are built using a number of environmental variables and it would be extremely useful to be able to easily display the JNDI entries and the parameters which have been installed. Just as we can current...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

DFHSIT: Provide utility for converting back to source values

It would be useful to have a way of reverting an assembled, link-edited DFHSIT back to the assembler source/supplied values. I am trying to create a service asset to validate that a) an LPAR is ready to run CICS, and b) a given CICS is ready to ru...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 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.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add SYSPLEX name to CP/SM resource table CICSRGN

MVSSYSNAME and MVSSYSID are already there. Also make available in CICS Explorer and CPSM rest api
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration