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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Access Kafka from CICS

Provide access to Kafka from / to CICS.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICSPlex Global TRANCLASS

We would like to have a the possibility of defining Global Tranclass Resources, and this way to be able to activate them with 'CICS System Group' scope in a CICSPlex.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Quiesce CICS before shutdown

CICS no longer quiesces TCPIPServices as part of SHUTDOWN, which caused a large number of connected clients to terminate when CICS was shutdown. For this RFE we are asking for a more graceful shutdown option.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Please add views for the FEPI Operations Tables

Hello, The WUI provides views for the FEPI Operations tables: FEPIPOOL, FEPIPROP, FEPICONN, FEPINODE, and FEPITRGT. Our shop uses FEPI and we want to see these views represented in the CICS Explorer for ease of administration.
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

Improve security processing for TCPIP-services

In a TCPIPService the authentication method must be specified. Currently there is no support for JSON Web Token (JWT).The TCPIPService definition should be enhanced to support at least JWT or better all types of authentication. And the handling sh...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Add ability to pass settings for System SSL environment variables

Due to an ever changing security landscape, we need the ability within CICS to be able to set environment variables for the instance of System SSL running within the regions. This will allow us to control all aspects of the security requirements t...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

make program EYU9XSTR Threadsafe,

We are trying to reduce Threadsafe TCB swapping; we are QR TCB constrained. In trace I notice that EYU9XSTR causes a TCB SWAP L8 to QR; see trace below, I notice an old RFE from Circa '18 to have this done; was not considered at that time; I'd lik...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

New CICS Start Option to Recover and then shut down

Provide a new CICS start option that would start CICS, connect with all related resource managers (IMS, DB2, MQ, etc.), complete all recovery, and then shutdown without allowing work to start flowing into that CICS. The current CICS startup option...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k

we do have situations where the server do reply http headers area bigger than 4k and in these case we get a 16 INVREQ Resp2=157 from cics instead of running successfully we do have a jwt solution where the signed jwt is 7k and if the server sent t...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Timeout for transactions in TCLASS.

Customer would like to be able to define a timeout for TCLASS to begin to purge tasks (PURGETHRESH) rather than relying only on the number of tasks queued.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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