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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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More transparency for Liberty users

Liberty is integrated in the CICS, but it functions as a "subsystem WAS" in the subsystem “CICS”. There is a lack of rational means for debugging and clarification. Thus, Liberty acts as a poorly integrated foreign body in CICS. See also Pmr 87726...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Modify EXEC CICS ENABLE to permit specifying conditions for when the exit program is to be driven

Could EXEC CICS ENABLE command be modified to specify a condition for when an exit program could be driven. Conditional execution could be based on CICS resources such as task number, transaction name or program name for example. Maybe we could ha...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Event capture of DL/I call / command

This request is to be able to capture information from each DL/I call using the CICS EVENT mechanism.The data to be captured includes the command code, the call details and the business data.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Transaction Routing

We are routing transactions (3270 based) and programs (CTG and CWXN based) from a TOR to AOR's. When we route a program from the TOR (active) to an AOR (in SHUTDOWN Phase) the routing program is called with DYRERROR set to 1, request rejected beca...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

More GRPLIST parameters for CICS-TS 5.3 or higher / four is not sufficient

More GRPLIST parameters for CICS-TS 5.3 or higher / four is not sufficient.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Generate 88-Levels for nillable fields

DFHWS2LS generates for each field with the attribute nillable=true two fields in the corresponding copybook. One for the content of the element and one for a flag, which indicates the existence of any content. The program using the copybook then h...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Certificate Revocation List processing enhancement

Problem: When performing CRL processing in CICS there is currently no way of knowing what Certificate Authorities (CA) have been loaded into the CICS address space from the LDAP server and any information about each CA. Solution: Add the capabilit...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Enhanced Security Authentication

Our internal security requirements team have asked us to reach out to IBM to request Enhanced CICS Security Authentication
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Provide a capability for DFHLS2WS to control optional fields

DFHLS2WS and DFHLS2SC generate all fields as mandatory fields. It might be helpful to have an option, which controls this behaviour. This will make it much easier to develop applications from existing structures.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Group and List operations impossible with CICS Explorer

- Impossible to do an APPEND LIST to an inexistent LIST (in order to create a new list based upon an old one) - While doing and ADD GROUP(xxx) to LIST(yyy), it's not possible to specify AFTER or BEFORE an other Group - Impossible to copy a whole g...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration