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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Inquire and browse Applications in a similar manner to programs.

CICS contains SPI and XPI interfaces to inquire on a particular program as well as browsing through the list of installed program definitions. However, although the same functions for applications are available internally in the same domain, these...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty Urimap disabled error

We are deploying Liberty apps with the application platform context. This means we have a cics bündle containing a urimap, warfile, etc. which can be enabled with an application. The developers now wanted to do a bugfix in Version 1.0.0 in an appl...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Applications not installed after JVM error

We had an timout error in the JVM. This caused, that after a cold start the installed apps in application/platform context have not been installed. After changing this to a warm start now it works, but on this weekend we installed new PTFs and we ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for SHA256

The capabilities that CICS WS-Security requires are; - Full support for <wsu:Timestamp> elements, specifically creating them on outbound messages. - Support SHA256 as a signature algorithm - Support signing of individual elements, specifical...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Catering for variable timezones at the CICS region level

We have CICS applications running on a z/OS mainframe that now need to accommodate varying local time differences (i.e. multiple countries & multiple time zones in those countries), including daylight saving, while running on the same z/OS LPA...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

In CICS: Allow products, like CICS VT, to be driven at end of task processing and before the syncpoint.

CICS VT intercepts CICS File Control requests in the File Contol GLUEs and converts them to DB2 requests. These are leaving the DB2 cursors OPEN.When the task reaches end of task syncpoint, Recovery Manager calls DB2 to PREPARE and COMMIT before t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance EXEC CICS ASSIGN with ASRABEAR option

The EXEC CICS API for ASSIGN returns many data items related to program checks (e.g. ASRAKEY, ASRAINTRPT, ASRAREGS, ASRAPSW, etc). But the one item that is not available to the ASSIGN API, that would be of great benefit for solving a wild branch, ...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Specify (remote) Transid on Function Shipped Requests other than DPL

It is currently possible to specify the transaction-id under which a DPL request will be invoked in the remote region using the "Transid" remote attribute on the program definition. This should be expanded to all function shippable remote requests...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Ability to Add View Links via plugin_customization.ini File

Allow CICS Explorer (CEX) Admins to pre-load CICS Explorer installation view(s), by adding "view links" in the CEX plugin_customization.ini file
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Connect to remote Database

Provide system option to define connection to a remote database service, exposed only as an option for programs within the scope of an Application definition. Implemented using lightweight TCP/IP to a datasource, including IMS and DB2, capturing t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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