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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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SNI Support for outbound connections in CICS

Some of our clients setup a server for example at Amazon (AWS).CICS can not connect to the server through HTTPS due to SNI enabled. Unfortunately there are No easy way for CICS sysprog to understand the underlying protocoll used.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Z/os Explorer BAS Enhancements

We have been using BAS (Business Application Services) frequently for resource definitions in our environments. Currently we use WUI for BAS Administration views and BATCHREP (Batched repository update requests). It would be nice to enhance Z/OS e...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Support multiple conditions per Policy system rule

Allow a system policy rule to be defined when multiple conditions evaluate true. For example when the MQ connection is enabled AND the DB2 connection is enabled. Another example would be when multiple bundle resources achieve a desired state.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Develop CICS Certification

Please develop a CICS Certification program. I found that Senior level Management feels that Certification shows that the holder has a detailed understanding of the product. It also shows that the holder is comitted to continuing their CICS educat...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

Display DFHCSD being accessed by CEDA/B/C

We have a client that has many CICS CSDs. We are in the process of consolidating them, but it is a long process. It is convenient to have a "CSDOR" (CSD-Owning-Region) to allow a single point where CEDA/B/C can be used to manage any CSD and to tha...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Be able to restart CKTI listener with the STC CICS user Id like CSKL(Sockets) listener.

Why there is no option to start CKTI with a specific user ID instead of the user who is actually running the tran? For example, If I recycle the listener with my ID it will get started with my ID and wont have access to many things(open initq, tri...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS should never loop endlessly when gathering statistics and writing them out to SMF

Sometimes, CICS statistics collection goes awry and loops endlessly. When this happens, CICS writes statistics to SMF for the same group of resources over and over in a never-ending loop. This causes CICS to become unusable and to have to be cance...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Amend DELAY API to be aware if it is cancelled.

When a CICS DELAY is issued with a request ID, the issuing application has no idea whether it waited for the full duration specified on the DELAY or if it was woken up early due to another task CANCELing the request ID. Would it be possible for CI...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Set lower limit for TRTABSZ SIT parm

The CICS Internal Trace Table TRTABSZ parameter has defaulted to 12M since version 5.3. Before that it was 4M in CICS 5.2. Yet we still have customers coming in with extremely small trace table sizes (64K, 128K, 256K, etc.) that would on the surfa...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add support for 64-bit storage to EXEC CICS INQUIRE STORAGE

GETMAIN64 was added with CICS/TS 5.1, however the INQUIRE STORAGE command still only returns 4-byte address values, and has no option for HIGH DSA pools.This is a request to add a INQUIRY STORAGE64 command for high DSA pools, so developers can dia...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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