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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Retrofit Maven-Plugin for CICS/TS 5.5

Please retrofit Maven Plug-In to CICS/TS 5.5, because we have 2 customers, who need that and have installed CICS/TS 5.5.A migration to 5.6 will be time consuming and is not planned for this year
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

SMF 110 Data to include Lock Details

We recently have had several problems related to LM waits and security delays but have not been able to use SMF data to identify the cause of the LM waits. If we're lucky enough to get a dump we might be able to see tasks waiting on a US lock, but...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Display what Transaction Group the Transaction Already exists when adding it to a different group.

When adding a transaction to a Workload Specification Group, that already exists. It displays the following: "Transactions cannot be in two Transactions Groups. Take from existing group(s)?" Is it possible for it to display what Workload Specifica...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

CICSPlex Global TRANCLASS

We would like to have a the possibility of defining Global Tranclass Resources, and this way to be able to activate them with 'CICS System Group' scope in a CICSPlex.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS/RRS support for batch EXCI/NOSYNCHONRETURN connecting to CICS on a different LPAR

Please add RRS support to CICS for NOSYNCHONRETURN where the batch EXCI job runs on 1 LPAR connecting to CICS on another LPAR.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add an utility or a message code to make CEDA alter messages manageable to be sent to SYSLOG

We were looking into a way of tracking any changes done (specially in CEMT and CECI) parameters using CEDA. To guarantee that their parameters are only updated through change records, and alerting if the transaction (or any other resource) paramet...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

CICS Policy: Add new System Rule to monitor LU62 connections.

CICS policies currently have the ability to monitor and perform action on MRO and IPIC connection status but lacking the ability to monitor LU62 connection which RTA has the capability of doing so. We have business application that still rely on L...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Automated build process for CICS Web Services (wsbind files), XML Transforms (xsdbind files) and JSON Transforms (jsbind files)

We are working on modernizing our environment by transitioning to an CI/CD Pipeline in conjunction with a modern source code management tool. Currently there is no ability to automate the build of CICS Web Services, XML transform and JSON transfor...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Please provide a CICS Explorer Operation view for Profile-Definitions

Hello everyone, In the CICS Explorer you can display the profile definitions under Definitions. Unfortunately, you cannot display the profile definitions under Operations, i.e. the active definitions are not displayed. Is it possible to add this f...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration