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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 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.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 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

Support for Corba/IIOP in CICS TS 5.2 and further

Corba/IIOP support is discontinued after CICS TS 4.2 It would be of great benefit to some of our customers if support for CORBA/IIOP be made available in CICS TS 5.2 and CICS TS 5.3, either directly in CICS or as a feature under the Liberty JVM Se...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 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.
about 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.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS WebServices should fully and natively support the WS-Security: SOAP Message Security, WS-Trust, and WS-Policy protocols

OASIS Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security v1.1: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16790/wss-v1.1-spec-os-SOAPMessageSecurity.pdf OASIS Web Services Security: WS-SecurityPolicy v1.2: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-sec...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CPSM upgrade CICS restart

Currently when we upgrade CPSM the CICS regions must be restarted to pick up the new Agent code. For availability reasons our requirement is that we can pick up the new code without having to recycle the CICS regions and cause an outage to our ser...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Permit cics mro session definition to have IOAREALEN > 32767, and/or, let session keep and reuse its HWM length TIOA

Issue: many additional cics freemains and getmains for mro session TIOAs are occurring, and burning cpu, after installing CICS TS 4.2. Reason: new CICS TS 4.2 code is appending an extra 600 bytes, presumably to track hops between regions, to many ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration