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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 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Use CICS Policy to replace CPSM RTA functionality (Check if LU62 Connection is Aquired)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for LU62 Connection Acquired to CICS, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do c...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Data to include security wait time

We often have short but impactful delays that are recorded in SMF 110 performance records with only "Lock Manager" wait time. There are various reason why a lock manager wait could occur so we can't tell from the SMF data. The instructions from IB...
about 1 year 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 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add DFHTABLE support for SIT (System Initialization Table).

Easier to upgrade CICS. Fewer tables to assemble. Can easily view all SIT Settings, when in ISPF, while reviewing the job, for ongoing support or analysis.
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Support of CICS HTTP error response in application/json

When CISC as an HTTP server receive a web request via TCPIPSERVICE and send an error response (401 basic auth error, 404 no matching urimap definition...), it does so in text/xml, application/soap+xml, or HTML depending on the media type of the re...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Future consideration

Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

Allow logical operation on filters in CPSM WUI and Explorer

A long time ago, when we only had the CPSM TSO Interface, we were able to use the filters in a smarter way by building them on some variables using each variable more than one, in other words, we could make conditional sentences. For example, we c...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Enable JCICS to be mocked easily for unit testing

We need the ability to easily mock the JCICS framework to drive unit testing requirements.
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Add CPSMOBJ resource to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records

Hi Team,Request is to add CPSMOBJ to SMF 1154 subtype 80 records.Adding CPSMOBJ will help us to monitor if any exposure to CPSM objects or CICS resources through CMAS.
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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