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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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a way to show the resources deployed in an application or bundles in target environment

After deploy CICS application or a bunch of bundles, user want to know how many resources are deployed to target system. They want to get a list of the resources' name. It could be a view in CICS explorer or a batch to generate a list. Similar to ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Improve Web Service Assistant

The Web Services Assistant DFHWS2LS generates nillabel fields as 2 fields in the high level language definition. One for the field itself and one field attr-nil-xxx-value with X'01' for true and X'00' for false. The utility should generate 88-leve...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Additional field for TCPIPSERVICE resource definition (GSE Requirement GGCIC11001)

A special IP stack can be addressed by its IP address only (or the default stack must be used). A specification of the stack by the name of the STC would make the definition more transparent. This is already implemented in Integrated IMS Connect (...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS Bundles have limited obvious scope for documentation

When creating CICS Bundle in CICS Explorer there initially appears to be very limited scope to include any description or documentation within the bundle itself. A CICS Application Bundle has a description field of up to 255 characters which is no...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Update of bundles via phasein (like programs) and NOT via CEDA

CEDA and CEDB are CICS administration transactions and not allowed for other coworkers like application developers! A reason for this is the revision because CEDA for non-administraors are a very big securityhole!
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Provide load module attributes at autoinstall time

Our CICS program autoinstall exit program has been designed to set the DATALOC attribute based on the AMODE of the program being autoinstalled. Since CICS does not make load module attributes directly available to the autoinstall exit, we are loca...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Flexible hostname lookup when using a proxy

Flexible hostname lookup is needed when using a proxy. CICS acting as a client can consume services/APIs on both internal (customer) and external (internet) networks. When consuming external services, CICS needs to route requests out through a pro...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Tranclass Timeout

Add a mechanism to timeout transactions waiting on Tranclass. The timeout value needs to be a parm that the customer can set.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Provide a Global User Exit point for program termination.

Currently CICS provides the GLUE XPCFTCH which is given control before an application program is executed. Various IBM and ISV products use this to get control to build an environment for their code to use.However, there is no corresponding exit p...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Type 4 DB2 driver compatability in CICS OSGI JVM server

Support Type 4 DB2 drivers from OSGI JVM's also address the integrity issues, commit and roll back
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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