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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Explorer needs full "import/export" capability

CICS Explorer should have the ability to retrieve/"download" bundle definitions (in fact, all definitions) from a live, running region (presumably from the CSD or CPSM repository) in a format that would allow the bundle to be edited/revised and re...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Multiple values for GRNAME SIT Parameter

Option to provide multiple values for GRNAME SIT parameter instead of just one.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Web Services - Invalid Data Substutition in CTS Pipeline Handlers

Whilst CICS Web Services has made many legacy applications available to new applications and SOA based services - many of these applications either include data items which require conversion of masking (i.e. use of CDATA etc) or are populated fro...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Platform Versioning

We just installed a Platform in the System Aproval Test Environment. Afterwards we tried to make some changes and this was not really funny. First we had to disable all Applicaiton, then we had to disable the platform and other not really nice thi...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS command needed to verify "SHARED" storage addresses

A need to validate a "SHARED" storage address currently forces us to verify the address using SM domain's SCA and SCE control blocks. Our goal is to eliminate the needed to chase Storage control block SCE chains to validate a SHARED storage addres...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CREATE A NEW CPSM USERID/SIGNON AFFINITY TYPE.

We found that affinity USERID/SIGNON in a trangroup has a limitation: if an AOR fails and has to be restarted, this type of affinity will not allow the signed on user to route another transaction to the this AOR.'EYUWR003W -The affinity AOR APPLID...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Support for VSAM RLS via file name

Problem: Currently RLS commands such as QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE are implemented via reference to the dsname rather than the abstracted CICS filename. This forces a re-think and re-write of some customer utility programs, data and methods and falls s...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS should prevent a non-initial start from a log that was written by a different release of CICS

CICS currently allows a non-initial restart from a log that was a different CICS release to the one that previously wrote to it. Such a restart should be rejected with Recovery Manager diagnostics that identifies the reason clearly.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Identify CICS transactions initiated from mobile devices

OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS could provide detailed reporting realting to the performance of new mobile workloads if transactions were marked as having been initiated by a user logged onto a mobile device.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow CICS exit at similar point to XEIOUT be controlled via flags set at a task level

Allow for either a new type of GLUE or TRUE that could be controlled like a TRUE via the schedule flag word or something similar at a task level. We would wish the exit to get control at the existing XEIOUT/XEIIN exit points and possibly XRIMOUT/X...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration