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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Request CICS level DS 2dispatch trace entries be available in level DS 3

Certain CICS trace entries that identify when a dispatch activity changes TCBs are located in level DS 2 type traces while other trace entries for similar dispatch mode changes appear in both level 2 and 3. We request that all dispatch entries tha...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic ICVR setting if using Debug Tool

Increase or disable ICVR (runaway task) for transactions running under Debug Tool.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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

Allow TCPIPService definition in CICS to be AT-TLS Aware (Retrofit from CICSTS V53)

I would like CICSTS v51 to have retro-fitted from CICSTS v53 the AT-TLS aware mode :- AT-TLS Aware mode is where the address space issues an AT-TLS calls to query a socket for its AT-TLS status. The address space can access items such as the clien...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Introduce TCP/IP Ping capability into CICS API

If a task running in CICS attempts to connect to a server over TCP/IP, for example using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN, this will fail quickly if the target system is reachable but there is no listener on the target port or any handshake fails. However, if t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
about 2 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

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.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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

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