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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Set Limit on Storage Used by a CICS Transaction

Now that CICS is web enabled applications can create extremely large documents. This can cause the CICS region to go short on storage. It should be possible to limit the amount of storage a transaction uses so that the creation of a large document...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS TS should provide GETPASSTICKET API

We have many legacy 3270 green screen CICS applications which periodically call our CICS goodbye program to reconnect the user's 3270 session on a different CICS system without reauthenticating the user. The goodbye program disconnects the termina...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Include cipher code in all CICS performance SMF records.

Please include the cipher code selected for an HTTP SSL conversation in the SMF 110 performance records.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add APPEND option to PUT container command

EXEC CICS PUT CONTAINER will currently replace all data in a channel if the channel exists. Customer would like an option to append data when doing a PUT to a container.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS should be more robust when MVS storage shortage occurs

CICS is going to have to come down when there is such a serious shortage of below the 16Meg line MVS storage. In this case the shortage was so severe that CICS could not continue it's termination after hitting the mutiple ABEND878s.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Method for determining the state of the SIT MSGCASE parameter

Customer is preparing some new CICS code to run with Japanese Katakana support. They would like to have an approved method for determining the state of the SIT MSGCASE parameter.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS Web Support to provide a parameter to change the timeout value for the first request

CICS Web Support to provide a parameter to change the timeout value for the first request. This parameter would be an equivalent parameter to the InputTimeout one that exists in the Http Server (5.3). The customer knows that CICS behaviour is to w...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Improve error messages in WS-assistant

The ws-utilities DFHLS2WS and DFHWS2LS should be improved to provide more acurat error messages that give a better hint as to what went wrong. For example, if the PDS lib of the input members REQMEM or RESPMEM is in use by another user in edit mod...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Ability to Manage Yielding Loops

When a task goes into a yielding loop (e.g., an endless loop where the only EXEC CICS statement is a VSAM read of the same record, which is in a buffer after the first read), there needs to be some mechanism for purging it and/or notifying someone...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

PEM support for TCPIP

Customer has a billing application that uses CICS CLIENT APPC PEM to the tune of about 1200 seats. They have been using this facility since the mid 90s and in order to migrate to ECI over TCPIP whenever ANYNET will become discontinued in the Z/OS ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

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