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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Java related courses for eduction

CICS TS support Java since 1998 CICS TS V1.3. In recently release, more and more Java features and functions added into CICS TS like: JVMServer, Liberty, etc. Java becomes to more important programming language for CICS TS. But we couldn't find pr...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Provide the JSON source to CICS when running z/OS Connect within a CICS Liberty Profile JVM

The architectural component of our online applications interrogates the data stream passed from various input channels to determine process options based on fields embedded in the message. The message format is variable by service and may contain ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS EDF Tool - Read Only Mode

The CICS Execution Diagnostic Facility (EDF) is a tool to debug CICS application programs, that use the CICS application programming interface (API). EDF runs as a CICS transaction that can be invoked using the CEDF transaction identifier. Most of...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

CICS 5.2 TYPE 2 DB2 Connection

I would like to be able to dynamically change the connection of a CTS region/regions to use a new DB2 subsystem.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

capacity to control flow between gateway and TOR, TOR and AOR

There are two user scenarios in this RFE,1. flow control between gateway and TOR,Today, there is no obvious way that gateway in front of TOR can know the healthy status of CICS in mainframe and decide how many workload they should send to each TOR...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Set EIBERR if terminal is no longer usable

If a CICS terminal suffers a TERMERR condition and/orsuffers a Terminal Control abend, the manuals say thatthe task must no longer issue TC commands.But there's no mechanism for an application to determinethat the task is in that situation (other ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHCMACD ABEND AEY9 is truncated

The description of abend AEY9 within DFHCMACD (CMAC transaction) is truncated. Service no longer updates DFHCMACD with maintenance so we are requesting this get fixed in the next release.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Display SYSPLEX ENQ status in CICS dump

Add a "Plex" column to NQ domain dumps for EXECPLEX Enqueue pool entries, so that the status of the MVS enqueue is known. The status would depend on the column header, but could be "Wait" or "Own" to indicate that the task is either waiting for th...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

All API Threshold policy

CICS TS V5 already provides a number of threshold policies for types of EXEC CICS commands, eg FC, TS, TD issued by a task. It would be useful to have a policy to control the overall number of EXEC CICS commands, ie any EXEC CICS command
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CMCI connection parm override to turn on analyzer

Need a parameter available to be able to turn on the analyzer for a CMCI connection in CICS Explorer
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered