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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Delivery of JAVA - drivers without Eclipse dependency (= NO Zwangsguifizierung!)

Including CTS 4.2, the JAVA-driver transactions JHE1 and JHE2 have been implemented without dependency to the CICS - Explorer / Eclipse. With CTS 5.1 you need PC - Tools. This is not good and should be changed as soon as possible!
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Routing algorithm should be able to be customized

In BOC, they have 16 AOR regions. However, due to DB2 timeout, 14 AOR regions got transaction dump, and no new workloads are routed to those AOR regions. Most of the transactions are routed to the 2 AOR regions, and quickly the 2 AOR regions are i...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Update to CICS Transaction Dump processing to remove QR TCB constraint

Writing to the CICS Transaction Dump data sets is currently done under the QR TCB. This can sometimes be a long running operation, and can hold the QR TCB for some time. Could CICS be enhanced to offload this processing to another TCB?
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Linkable Bridge : DFHL3270 in router region to DPL under unique Tranid other than CSMI

Currently the Linkable Bridge module DFHL3270 when running in a router region will DPL to the AOR under the default mirror transaciton CSMI. This can make monitoring, isolating, and controlling linkable bridge requests difficult if not impossible....
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Webservices timeout specification

The documentation for timing out inbound web service requests is not very clear and it is time consuming to test the combination of options. It would be simpler if a timeout value could be specified for in the webservice definition (or in the firs...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS API to inquire MVS workload manager service reporting class taken

Enable and allow CICS application access to MVS workload manager service reporting class token in order to determine whether the work originated from a mobile channel/device.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer and CECI functionality

CECI functionality is currently absent from CICS Explorer.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE

We need the ability to make receive of terminal input data without changing the 'status' of the TIOA: EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow DataTables Record and Index descriptors to span across multiple dataspaces as the records themseves do.

We have been experiencing abend DFHFC0431.The error gets triggered because we hit the 2GB limitation on the Record and Index Descriptors. We ran into this issue with only a single data table defined in the region (it does have 28 million records)....
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Amend CPSM API Install for FILEDEF to allow override values.

When installing a FILEDEF resource using the CPSM API there is currently no way to override values such as the filename either with a specific parameter or via a RASGNDEF. Whereas using the WUI and installing a FILEDEF an override value is allowed...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 7 Not under consideration

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