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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Interlanguage Calls (ILC) between Java and COBOL, which allow to use the same Working Storage via different ILC calls of one COBOL program

We are modernizing our application and during this process the programs are migrated from COBOL to Java. Because it is not possible to do this in one big step, we do it component by component in many small steps. This requires that ICLs work well....
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RFE to make RTIMOUT attribute in PROFILE definition DYNAMIC

Change the RTIMOUT attribute within the PROFILE definition to be dynamic, so CICS Administrators can quickly update it to react to changing conditions in the network.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support multiple WSBind directories in CSD WSDIR pipeline definition

See RFEs 18047 & 14725, delivered with TS 5.2 through application bundles and application versioning. Our need was not met - there is still a need for concatenation of directories in the WSDIR pipeline CSD/RDO definition, specifically in the t...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS T/S Named Counter services - externalize the actual name of the Named Counter within statistics

CICS provides detailed Named Counter Pool statistics but it should also externalize the actual names of the Named Counters using the pool along with detailed usage for each counter. I'm told by IBM that CFRTRFLD in DFHNCCF has the Named Counter na...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

CICS REXX interface support for system programming commands

The is currently no support in the CICS REXX interface for system programming commands, such as EXEC CICS INQUIRE, SET, etc.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Launch CICS transactions from CICS Explorer / IDz

Eclipse has built-in support for launching applications with normal execution or for debug (launch and debug configurations). It is possible today to setup debug profiles for CICS applications from Eclipse but starting the actualy transaction does...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

New CICS Start Option to Recover and then shut down

Provide a new CICS start option that would start CICS, connect with all related resource managers (IMS, DB2, MQ, etc.), complete all recovery, and then shutdown without allowing work to start flowing into that CICS. The current CICS startup option...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer Auto Refresh

Enable CICS Explorer to have Auto Refresh like the CPSM WUI.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Update CEGN transaction to support Password Phrases

CICS has a sample "Good night" transaction called CEGN that is intended for juse if a region is configured to allow users to be timed out after a period of inactivity. However it only prompts for a password not pass phrase so is not in keeping wit...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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