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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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    Having the ability to run different Kafka consumer threads under unique CICS transaction IDs & USERIDs

    We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic.We are causing a CICS task to be bound to the thread to give us better visibility/security/control. We have configured the following in the jvmprofile to enable us ...
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Update CEGN transaction to support Password Phrases

    CICS has a sample "Good night" transaction called CEGN that is intended for juse if a region is configured to allow users to be timed out after a period of inactivity. However it only prompts for a password not pass phrase so is not in keeping wit...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

    I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
    almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

    Provide a new option for how CICS should recover from a storage violation

    Why is it useful? If I enable all CICS storage protection options (RENTPGM=PROTECT STGPROT=YES TRANISO=YES), define all programs with EXECKEY=USER, and define all transactions with ISOLATE=YES, I can be reasonably confident that any victim task of...
    about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, if any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check..

    HI , As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, and as CICSCAT3 transaction is open for all, If any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not a part CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check. This will e...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Add a filter for filename on task rule 'file activity' and a delay.

    Currently, when using policy and task rule 'file activity', we monitor all files activity. I would be interesting to be able able to specify a filename in task rule 'file activity' because usually we want to take action on specific file, not all. ...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

    Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

    Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    SPOOLWRITE as Threadsafe; Individual Task reports separated by TOKEN value

    Less delay when sending out alerting JCL
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    New CICS Start Option to Recover and then shut down

    Provide a new CICS start option that would start CICS, connect with all related resource managers (IMS, DB2, MQ, etc.), complete all recovery, and then shutdown without allowing work to start flowing into that CICS. The current CICS startup option...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Enhance CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks

    Enhance the CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks to not be limited to checking only when ESSS is not already running. This would provide a sanity check with applying maintenance that requires ESSS to be terminated and restarted.
    about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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