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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CPSM should alert on dataspace utilization

CPSM should produce alerts for high utilization of data spaces before the available space has been completely exhausted, and additional, unique message IDs for when the shortage has been relieved. For all of the data spaces that have pairs, like W...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow override of HPO SIT parm in PARM; add RACF/ESM facility resource to control use

Our shop maintains CICS regions for multiple business units, some of which utilize HPO=YES, and others which specify HPO=NO. Our intent to migrate toward use of a common base SIT (DFHSIT6$) is therefore thwarted by the non-overridability of the HP...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Cics Liberty local server.xml deployment

For a developper it is not possible to take a local server.xml or parts of it and be sure, that the same configuration is used in cics. We can now build something, to hack the created server.xml or to overwrite it, but this is not really nice. Wha...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

New message ID for CF structure usage decreasing

Either modify DFHXQ0411I and DFHXQ0412I, or create separate message IDs analogous to them, except making it clear whether usage is increasing or decreasing
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

zospt spring boot support

We see, that there are a lot of spring boot apps in our company - amount increasing. They all will be deployed to openshift + tomcat. We can't do anything against this trend as there is no alternative on the mainframe. The idea now would be to hav...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3 Delivered

Link to Liberty CDI Bean Support

We are just implementing an Mail send Routine in CICS Liberty, which should be called from PL/1 and Batch (with EXCI+Container). So fare so good. As the developer now deployed his liberty application it was very curious to see, that the CDI Beans ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Add WUI FEPI Operations Views

Currently the WUI Operations Menu Contains a link to the FEPI Operations Views (Connections, Nodes, Pools, Property Sets, and Targets). We want functionally equalivant views available in CICS Explorer
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Control level of messages for XML validation

When validation is used for a Web Service, the java code doing the validation is writing lots and lots of messages to STDERR.Please provide a parameter to control the level of output
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Allow COBOL program to get invoked after LOGIN

We are currently using a non-standard ICHRIX02 exit and an old, in-house developed assembler program instead of CSGM/CESN.That is done so the users can get this information after login:xxxxxxxxx ITS325 LAST SYSTEM ACCESS 07.30-10/09/17 xxxxxxxxx C...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Provide initiating program name in XPCFTCH parameter list

In XPCFTCH glue we are interested in the name of the program that issued the LINK or XCTL that the exit is being driven for. You can see related PMR for details, but we tried making XPI call DFHPGISX FUNCTION(INQUIRE_CURRENT_PROGRAM) IGNORE_EXITS(...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered