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Usability of cicsterm cursor on Windows

The default cursor displayed in a cicsterm window is a vertical bar/pipe character. This is frequently difficult to see.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Inconsistent permissions for log and trace files

Client daemon trace files currently use different file permissions when memory mapped tracing is configured, compared to non-memory mapped. Client daemon log files and trace files should use a consistent permissions pattern, allowing the system ad...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Automatically naming of log files per daemon instance

By automatically naming log files on an daemon-instance basis, log files sizes are limited and archiving becomes a simple task.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow caller to control the order in which containers are returned from getContainers method

We would like the ability, for the calling application, to control the order in which containers are returned, on all Browse-Container functions (eg, ECIV2's getContainers method).  According the documentation, the order of containers on a channel...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 5 Future consideration

Centralized systems adminstration for multiple Gateway daemons

As multiple Gateway daemons can be used z/OS, on multiple distributed platforms (physical or through virtualization), a new solution is required for centralized systems management.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

The Gateway daemon should protect itself from storage shortage conditions

The Gateway daemon continues to allocate new resources such as connection manager threads, worker threads or IPIC connections when the system administrator has not allowed sufficient Java heap or region storage for those resources. This leads to s...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to copy/paste from cicsterm screen

Currently in the Windows version of the CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms, the cicsterm 3270 terminal emulation program does not allow copy/paste operations.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic management of Gateway daemon timezone

Time stamps are used by the Gateway daemon in output such as log messages, monitoring data and diagnostic traces. It should be possible to update the timezone in use dynamically, avoiding an outage.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Independent codepages for ECI applications on Multiplatforms

ECI applications connected to CICS TS through the Client daemon are constrained to a single codepage.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Statistic to show number of ConnectionManagers in limbo state

The CM_CCURR statistic includes those that are in a 'limbo' state - i.e. those ConnectionManagers which are no longer connected to a client, but cannot be returned to the free pool because there is still a worker thread outstanding waiting for wor...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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