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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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define the USERID parameter on a Transient Data Extrapartition queue.

If CICS programs which have been statically coding JCL in source Submit a batch job using Transient Data Extrapartition queue, the ownerid of a batch job is the userid of cics region.Therefore in such a situation, it can not control the submission...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

CPSM WUI filters

It would be nice that when you select an operations link to view resources from the WUI screen that the WUI app would allow to enter a filter before the initial data search. This would also apply to the Explorer product as well.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add sort by column to CICS Explorer

It would be very nice if we could sort the tabular displays in CICS Explorer (e.g. Transaction definitions) by any of the displayed columns. For example, display the information normally first, then when the user clicks on a column header, the dis...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Possibility to specify the interval of automatic deletion of TSQs

Today CICS cleanup task scans the temporary storage queues in the CICS region and deletes the queues that are eligible for automatic deletion.every 30 minutes . Customer would like to have the possibility to specify this value as a SIT parameter b...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow RLS and non-RLS opens within a CICS Region for the same data set.

We would like to use RLS during the day to update our CICS files. We then must switch the file to read only non-RLS for the batch run. We must have the file opened in read only before closing the file from RLS. Currently CICS does not allow RLS an...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

jcics method datatype container

jcics does not provide a method to determine the datatype of a received Container. documentation suggests that it should. Knowlegde center search for getdatatype lists this as a method available for jcicsalso, ctg appears to support a getType meth...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Obtain ID under which CICS region executes from a CPSM GET call

The userid that the CICS region executes under (from the IEF695I message) should be made available via a CPSM GET call
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Compatibility of CSMI with RSA Securid

On our environments, we have RACF interfaced with RSA Securid.RSA Securid provides us with a one-time-usage code to sign-in.When trying to connect with CICS Explorer (via CMCI) to our CICS on these LPAR, the same code is tried many times and our a...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Provide statistics for CICS Policies

We need statistics info for CICS policies to clearly show some accounting data, eg: the times of thresholds achieved for a specific policy
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CKTI security concern

all transactions submitted using the CICS / MQ trigger interface transaction CKTI run under the userid assigned to the CKTI transaction. This opens up access of transactions restricted to certain users to be executed by anyone using the CICS / MQ ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered