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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Add Back the CICS Explorer Release to CICS Explorer Download Filenames in IBM GitHub

Currently the CICS Explorer Release is no longer part of the Download File name in IBM GitHub. Only the Aqua Release is represented. Understanding that we don't want to extend the file path names we would like to see both the Aqua and CICS Explore...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Add to SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the region grouplists used at startup

Add to the SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the option to display/query the region grouplists used at startup. Right now if you need to query this you need to review the job output and if you want to query this programmatically you need to chase down the inform...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

be able to get channel DFHTRANSACTION in JCICS

in JCICS there is a Task.getTask().getChannel("DFHTRANSACTION"); in the doc it say The named Channel object if it exists, or null if it does not. The named channel will only be returned if it is the current channel, or if it was previously created...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record

When a HTTP request, running in CICS Liberty, is authenticated by a client certificate the CICS monitoring record does not contain the correct userid. That does not affect runtime operation of the user task, but the task will be associated with th...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Preprocessor LIB option

The CICS preprocessor creates required COBOL Compiler Options including the LIB command. The LIB option is no longer supported with COBOL 5 and 6. Please create a CICS('cobol5') option which can be included in COBOL Compiler Option directives to m...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

Identify the Maintenance Point(s) of a CICSPLEX in the Job Log of a CMAS

Many Times when Trying to locate the Maintenance Point of a CICSplex I would navigate the Pages of the CPSM Web User Interface. It would be nice to externalize/identify the Maintenance Point in the Job Log of the CMAs. Automation Packages can then...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

CICS Liberty servers are unable to tolerate changing zFS mount points

Every CICS JVMserver region has to shut down when an lpar holding the HFS mount point is IPL'd and the mount point gets moved to another lpar. Having to shut down all these regions would defeat the purpose of a CICSPlex for high availability. whic...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Pass abending program to CICS Policy system Transaction abend EP adapter

In CICS Policy system rule Transaction abend the abending program should be passed to the EP adapter transaction/program in a DFHEP.DATA.nnnnn container.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

User set in CICS Liberty TAI should be accounted in SMF

CICS Liberty Profile uses the user set in the authorization header for SMF accounting.While the transaction is running we can find in Omegamon for CICS the user which was set by methode"TAIResult.create(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK, personalizedUser)...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

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