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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Optimize CICS/MQ Bridge error handling (enhanced ROUTEMEM)

The current ROUTEMEM=Y mechanism to protect against certain types of errors with messages processed by the MQ Bridge imposes the overhead of creating and deleting a shared TSQ for every message. Investigate optimizing this to only create the TSQ w...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS commands proposed to be Threadsafe.

INQUIRE TASK LIST should be Threadsafe to enable monitoring of looped or deadlocked CICS tasks.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

No message issued after successful EXEC CICS VERIFY and unsuccessful attempt count was non-zero

We've recently had two PMR's (22838,7TD,000 and 43772,499,000) where customers received an excessive number of DFHXS1201 messages before a userid was revoked in RACF. On an EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD call, if an invalid password is used and the DFH...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Possibility to use a VSAM PATH in a //EYUDREP DD card

In our implementation, we are using PATH and ALIAS in our CICS JCL in order to access physical files without having to worry about changing procedures whenever we apply maintenance or change a physical file for any reason. We already submitted a R...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Current CICS transaction security paradigm lacking for new CICS entry points

We would like CICS to have a better security interface at the program level without having to implement full blown PPT security checking to better support all of the new entry points into CICS where IBM transactions are the initiator.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

impact for CICs with z/OS maintenance (ciphers)

We recently applied maintenance on our z/OS LPARThe APAR OA47405 and OA48868 have an impact on the cipher suites, but the CICS systems are not awared of these modificationsWe would like to have a APAR generated for CICS too when z/OS maintenance h...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

SAVE DBCTL ID on RTA EVALUATION

Please see PMR # 40391 some of the contents are below...... We have recently created an RTADEF for our DBCTL Subsystem We use an ACTIONDEF & a EVALDEF. Everthing works fine. We noticed that the DBCTL subsystem is not displayed in the EYU messg...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Allow update to origin data (User Correlation Data) via a call in addition to XAPADMGR

Provide a callable interface to update origin data, such as USERCORRDATA, so that we can invoke it when we have access to the data we want to use. The command could be something like SET ASSOCIATION USERCORRDATA(xxxxx). If the command is invoked f...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

CICS identify STDOUT/STDERR

Put out an informational message explicitly identifying the STDOUT and STDERR location/file/DD for each JVM.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Support Kerberos authentication with CICS application

An authentication process in CICS 3270 application is implemented in the COBOL CICS program, which issues SIGNON command. The authentication process is based on the integration interface between CICS and RACF. The current possibilities allow to us...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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