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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Limit on Terminal Error Conditions or transactions run on specific terminal

Limit number of terminal transaction errors and/or number of transactions entered from a single terminal.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

URI MAP Pipeline Scan Install model - web assistant

URI MAP MODEL for the Web Assistant (JSON); pipeline scan, bind file.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Expanded capabilities for using variables.properties in CICS

CICS Explorer should permit and support the ability to substitute values from an included variables.properties file in a bundle into any/every element that can be packaged therein, including text format files such as jvmprofiles.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

CICS Event Consumer (formerly support pac CA1Y) should be included with CICS

I believe that the CICS Event Consumer package (formerly the CA1Y support pac) that can be obtained from GITHUB at this URLhttps://github.com/cicsdev/cics-event-consumerShould be included with and shipped with CICS/TS, perhaps in *.SDFHSAMP.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Ability to define a TRANCLASS in a CICS bundle

We would like to have the ability to define a TRANCLASS in a CICS bundle. We define a TRANCLASS for every TRANSACTION defined in the system. The CICS bundle is great for deploying applications but it falls a bit short with the missing TRANCLASS. I...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

MRO and Threadsafe

Allow threadsafe for remote requests (file control, dpl, etc.) over MRO.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Support storing/managing/loading application binary executables (load modules) in/from zFS-resident bundles in CICS/TS

CICS/TS loader should support the ability to load binary executables (load modules) directly from application bundles that have been stored in zFS as opposed to having been stored in a traditional PDS(E) load library.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Suffixed version of DFHCNV

We would like to see suffixed versions of DFHCNV selectable by Initialisation Parameter just like any old CICS System Table. This would allow different tiers of CICS systems to use different DFHCNVxx load modules with potentially differing source.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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