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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Monitoring Webservices INVOKED by CICS transaction

we need to be able to see in realtime and by monitoring tools the webservices and pipelines invoked by cics transactions. The CICS webservice acts like a requester. We hope to be able to see all the informations that can be seen if the webservice ...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k

we do have situations where the server do reply http headers area bigger than 4k and in these case we get a 16 INVREQ Resp2=157 from cics instead of running successfully we do have a jwt solution where the signed jwt is 7k and if the server sent t...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

PLT TABLES LOADED DURING THE STARTUP. NOT COMPILED.

Our Macys customer have over 400 regions, each using it's own PLT PI and PLT SD. During an upgrade, we have to compile over 800 PLT tables, which is very time consuming. Plus we have an extra work to document and keep track of all the PLTs to know...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Identify the Maintenance Point(s) of a CICSPLEX in the Job Log of a CMAS

Many Times when Trying to locate the Maintenance Point of a CICSplex I would navigate the Pages of the CPSM Web User Interface. It would be nice to externalize/identify the Maintenance Point in the Job Log of the CMAs. Automation Packages can then...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Use CICS Policy to replace CPSM RTA functionality (Check if LU62 Connection is Aquired)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for LU62 Connection Acquired to CICS, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do c...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

We want to use systemsymbols (variables) in Library RDO DSN fields

We want to be able to use System symbols (IEASYMxx) in Library RDO DSN fields. More generaly: it should be made available to CICS RDO Resources. And/Or there could be an CICS API Command to inquire systemsymbols (browsing, read next...)
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Include TLS Level information in CICS performance data record

Currently for CICS regions that is not relying on TCPIP for security, the CICS performance data does not have the TLS level information that was selected during SSL Handshake for the incoming web requests. The CICS performance data should be exten...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

key product after using CICS trial

we would need a key to activate the product CICS after using CICS trail when the tests are completed
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Put transaction and system dump tables in RDO (SHARE requirement SSCICS94012)

Settings for transaction and system dump codes should be able to be defined dynamically with RDO.
over 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Add to SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the region grouplists used at startup

Add to the SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the option to display/query the region grouplists used at startup. Right now if you need to query this you need to review the job output and if you want to query this programmatically you need to chase down the inform...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered