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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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SPI Audit retrofitted to CTS 4.2 environment.

Rrequesting the SPI Audit function be ported from CICS TS 5.1 to CICS TS 4.2. Without an auditing function for changes made though CICS explorer, we could not promote this product as a viable software solution to controlling our CICS environment. ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

WUI "Active tasks" view. The previous selected data remain on the screen after a invalid selection.

On the view "Active tasks", after a previous selection, customer has informed an invalid value, e.g., in the field "Taskid". CPSM / WUI issued a error message informing the value is not valid, but the previous presented data still remain in the sc...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect

CICS Explorer needs method to change password

Unable to change expired password when using CICS Explorer. A message is issued at the bottom of the window that the password is expired:"IZE0106E Connect failed with error "Password expired" (Winmvs A0 RW)" (Data in brackets is the name of the co...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

More meaningful resource attribute names

The resource attribute names in the CICS Explorer can have very cryptic meanings. When you are looking to add an attribute to the view, it is difficult to know which one to select due to the way it was named. I know the dynamic help can be used to...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM CMAS and WUI should invoke STAT transaction for statistics

Need ability to both automatically configure CICS statistics collection in a CMAS/WUI server as well as adhoc statistics collection. Add an action to the CMAS resource table for adhoc, API or CMCI requests from Explorer to have the CMAS or WUI run...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CMDPROT for calls to External Resource Managers such as MQ and DB2.

Even with Storage Protection active in CICS, it is possible for a USERKEY application program to cause CICSKEY storage to be overlayed. This can happen if the USERKEY program specifies the address of CICSKEY storage as one of the output parameters...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve doc about dealing wiht Java problems

Client feedback indicates that there are an increasing number of additional traces and logs beyond the three JVM server output files. It would be useful to have a summary of how to turn on ALL the various diagnostic options. - Would like to see mo...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Improve doc about installing CICS TS

Client feedback indicates that the installation information for CICS TS is out-of-date, ambiguous and difficult to follow. It doesn't connect well with the other documents that are needed for installing, such as the Program Directory and z/OS docu...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CPSM API : Get CSD DSNAME and BASEDSNAME for DFHCSD for a CMAS

We are using CPSM API to retrieve infaormation about our regions. One of them is the CSD NAME (both DSNAME and BASEDSNAME). Unfortunately, we are not able to do that for the CMAS. It will help us if it was possible. More generally speaking, we can...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

monitor the perfromance of programs in one task

Current, CICS create one performance monitor record for each task. User can't drill down into performance of each program used in this task. eg. the CPU time of each program in this task. Customer wants CICS write performance data for each program...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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