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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Enhance Bundle-Deployment with CICS explorer

When developing Java applications for CICS, at the end a bundle must be exported to z/FS. The export will occur with mode fields 750, which means in most cases, that CICS is not allowed to read the bundle directory and its resources.It might be ve...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Provide MODESET data in Explorer

We use the WUI to look at MODE information instead of needing to log into hundreds of CICS regions to review this data. We are trying to standardize the using of Explorer and remove the dependency on people using both Explorer and the WUI. Can yo...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

DFHSC2LS - xsd:NonNegativeInteger mapped as string instead of integer in PL/1 and COBOL

We use the CICS XML assistant(DFHSC2LS) to do XML schema to PL/I language conversion. In the XML schema we have a datatype xsd:nonNegativeInteger which is getting converted to Character. Ideally we would expect a conversion to fixed decimal instea...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Recovering from abend AICA under OTE TCB

An application can establish an abend handler by EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND, which gets control if any abend occurs, e.g. with abend code AICA. If running under OTE, an abend AICA cannot be intercepted by a user abend handler, i.e. the transaction ter...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Remove NEWCOPY requirement from RDO Dynamic LIBRARY changes

Remove the need to do NEWCOPY of programs or a region recycle when a new LIBRARY def is added or an existing one is changed.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS to fully support encoded http messages

We are running a CICS Provider Web service. We need to compress the response. We have a transport handler which takes the response in DFHRESPONSE, zips the content into another container using a Java program, sets the http header Content-Type and ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Multiple values for GRNAME SIT Parameter

Option to provide multiple values for GRNAME SIT parameter instead of just one. This option is very helpful when we hosting multiple applications in same CICS region.
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve doc about CICS TS start up and shut down

Client feedback indicates that the documentation about CICS start up and shutdown is not clear and it occurs in multiple places in the Knowledge Center and is conflicting in these different places.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Redrive User Logon at MFA Token Expiration

Currently if a user logs on to an LPAR via CICS Explorer (CMCI Connection) he enters an MFA token. If his LPAR connection/session is still active after the MFA Token Expires and the user either refreshes his screen or drives a request for informat...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Is a defect

Propagate original Userid from CPSM interface / CICS Explorer (GSE requirement GGCIC10006)

Changes made through CICS explorer (CE) or the CPSM WUI are executed in the target region using the CICS region Userid rather than the original Userid.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration