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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Move LSR Pools above the bar

We would like to see the LSR pools moved above the bar for CICS.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) - Greater Permission Granularity

Currently the CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) rules are limited with respect to CPSM WLM Resource Administration. The OPERATE CPSM ESM group already allows you to break access down by Type (ie: CONNECT, PROGRAM, etc.) The use case below, contains an e...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Inquire Details of Autoinstallmodel terminals or Typeterm

With 'CEMT i AUTI' you can see a list of Autoinstallterminalmodels or Typterms, but you cannot look to further details as other resources like files oder terminals. If you type on the line a command like ? or Enter, you don't see any further Detai...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

RSA/SHA256 support for digital signing in CICS web services

We would like CICS web services to be able to digitally sign a soap message or xml fragment using RSA SHA-256
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Increase User Limit of 512 for Recoverable CFDT

We have a proprietary CICS dynamic transaction routing exit that uses a recoverable CFDT for managing its routing data. There is currently a CICS limit of 512 regions that can connect to a recoverable CFDT. During our busy processing season, we ne...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Separating CICSPlex SM Workload by Program

To cope with increasing workload and avoid single point of failures we would need the possibility to separate CICSPlex SM Workload by program analogous separating the work in a workload based on transactions.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Some special transactions can be as free from MXT control as CICS system transactions

Some special transactions can be as free from MXT control as CICS system transactions and can be scheduled to run as soon as possible.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Support for Gzip on any HTTP message

Please provide GZIP support to decompress and compress HTTP bodies.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Destroy hanging UOWs

It should be possible to destroy an UOW by CEMT S UOW(...) PURGE to avoid an CICS initial start.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration