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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Connection URL stored in Master Workspace

In CICS Explorer, the URL for load/export of connections is currently stored in the Master Workspace - it should be stored in the EXE, so that it is not a dependent piece of the Master Workspace.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Throttle for CSOL if CICS is not responding

We had a couple of sev 1 issues recently after an overall system lockup froze everything for a few minutes. Because of the high volume of HTTP messages we process, all of our high volume TOR (WOR) regions went SOS immediately after the systems fre...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

RFE for eclipse EFS OSGI bundle exporter

A CICS bundle is created with one OSGI bundle, the deployment to the ZFSdirectory regularly fails with an Eclipse message: java.net.socketTimeoutException: read timed out. My colleague uncompiled the IBM java class which is at the origin of thepro...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Support symbolic substitution in ACTION definition message templates

We want to implement CPSM RTA and generate mails via system automation if a (CPU) limit of a transaction has been reached.<br />Message EYUPN0007W is read by automation and creates a mail to application responsibles.Unfortunately it is not p...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Access to URIMAP ID in converter program

When developing software that uses CICS Web Support, I needed access the URIMAP ID in the converter, and later on in the application program, for the URIMAP that fired the web request. The analyzer does have that information but it is not passed t...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Access to an existing CICS document from a java program using JCICS

I want to be able to pass a CICS DOCUMENT, created in a COBOL program, to a java program by its document token and have the java program work with that existing document with the JCICS api. However, I have not been able to find a way to use an exi...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFH0IPCC change to add USERAUTH

The migration utility DFH0IPCC that converts the connection/session definitions to IPIC IPCONN definitions does not created a card for the USERAUTH parameter in the IPCONN define, created from the ATTACHSEC parameter in the connection definition.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

CICS remove banner viewed from HTTP server

Request to remove the CICS 4.2 banner when anyone accesses CICS
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

DFHMQTRU GETMAIN should be in CICSKEY

In the current design, the DFHMQTRU GETMAIN's without specifying CICSKEY or USERKEY option. So the GETMAINed storage is default to the setting in TASKDATAKEY for the transaction. Therefore it is possible that the application would FREEMAIN the DFH...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

CICS tran dump threshold

System: CICS 4.2Actor: CICS programmer CICS currently allows us to set the TRDUMAX system initialization parm to specify the limit on the number of transaction dumps that may be taken per Dump Table entry. Description:Program testing sometimes cau...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Delivered