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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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.
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 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.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 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...
almost 8 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...
about 7 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...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 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)...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 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...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Monitoring Webservices INVOKED by CICS transaction

we need to be able to see in realtime and by monitoring tools the webservices and pipelines invoked by cics transactions. The CICS webservice acts like a requester. We hope to be able to see all the informations that can be seen if the webservice ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 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...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

When trying to configure the WUI CMCI JVM in our recently upgraded CTS 6.1 sandpit WUI, a problem was identified to do with the configuration of the keystore which uses crypto hardware. Each time the WUI restarted it would change safkeyringhw to s...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

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