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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Modify DFHLS2WS to create better tags

The WSDL document created by CICS Web Services Assistant DFHLS2WS is not useable "as is" due to some issues with the values chosen for a few tags or element names. The WSDL would be more useful and compatible with other non-IBM distributed tools i...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for z/OS to have multiple concurrent connections for a category

Request that the Host Connections view of IBM Explorer for z/OS permit multiple concurrent host connections to be active within a connection category. Currently, if a connection is shown as successful within a category, then during an attempt to c...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for z/OS to accept connection states via other product plug-ins

Host connection state changes within IBM Explorer for z/OS are currently established manually via the Host Connections view. Request that product plug-ins which can establish host connections independently of the Host Connections view be able to "...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Control the number of DFHAP1900 messages

With the CTS 5.1 we have a valuable feature: Log of SPI - activities. But a central application must work with ... taname FEPI SET NODE(AZP050) USERDATA(KN03) RESP... ... the FEPI SET command. With round about 600.000 messages per CICS and day we ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Is a defect

Performance improvements for CICS Webservices Assistant

We use the CICS Webservices Assistant to generate wsdl and wsbind files for legacy mainframe applications. Some of these legacy applications use complex and large structures.This results in complex and large wsdls.Generation of a wsbind for such a...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Improve Storage Violation detection

Current CICS storage violation detection is inadequate.Check-zones (even with CSFE CHKSTSK), TRANISO, STGPROT, and SSRANGE only protect some storage.Often, they do not protect against:- An application using storage that it has FREEMAINed- An appli...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Modify DFHLS2WS to support multiple Operations for a single Web Service

We currently write Web Services (programs) to support multiple operations for a single web service. We start with PLI structures and using DFHLS2WS, create the WSDL. But we have to manually merge the 2 or more WSDL documents into a single document...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHPI1008 diagnostic enhancements

Message DFHPI1008 includes some limited diagnostics to help identify the cause of a problem. Additional details would help to pinpoint the specific cause. e.g.==> DFHPI1008 03/01/2014 14:25:36 PRTICICS 00748 XML generation failed because of inc...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Statistcs Report - Please add Total allocates for IRC EXCI Connections

Please add the 'Total Allocates' number field for IRC EXCI connections also like XM/VTAM APPC etc in statistics reports. Currently the field is always zero and not applicable.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS Administrative Interface on mobile device

The CICS Explorer provides a graphical interface for administrating CICS. With all the recent advances with mobile in the last couple of years, it would be good to have a graphical administrative interface that works on mobile devices. Such as iPa...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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