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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Platform deactivation without deactivation of bundles

We have > 20 and soon > 50 applications on a platform. At the moment it is not possible to deactivate a platform without deactivating the apps. This is very bad. If we want to add a cics region in production on the fly to a platform region g...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics Explorer Virtual Reality Support - Operators View

At the moment there is only omegamon to visualise running transactions in cics and to see the cics environment (CICSPLEX) this is very difficult to do it in a simple way, because there is too much information in it and you need to be a specialist ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 bundle phasein support

We have the developer requirement to quickly test his application in test state. For this we will use zospt to create a new cics for the developer. He then has his own region to test the application. If the developer compiles a modul in a componen...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Cics explorer Enhancement of application activation

The cics explorer we have at the moment is not able to activate and deactivate one ore multiple applications at the same time and move the applicaitons with one step to available state. This habit is very bad, we have to click very often.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Add EXCI command level interface support for 64 bits PL/1 programs

When a PL/1 batch program is compiled with the CICS('EXCI') option, EXEC CICS statements are translated into calls to DFHXCIE by the Cics Integrated Translator, whatever the PL/1 LP compile option. When LP32 is in effect, this is fine as DHFXCIE i...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to DFHLS2WS

Enhance DFHLS2WS to support PL/I PIC'999' fields for input structures and any style PL/I PIC field for output. At run time, the data mapper should treat the fields as character fields. Right now the developer has to create addtiional structure def...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

Multiple CICSPLEX view for CICS Explorer

Requirement:Ability for CICS Explorer to connect to, display, and manage resources in multiple regions simultaneously regardless of which LPAR and/or SYSPLEX might contain those regions.  Permit logical groupings of regions by function withou...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer be provided with an ‘Interrupt' or ‘Cancel' button

Provide the CICS Explorer be with an ‘Interrupt' or ‘Cancel' button, for data requests that were incorrectly defined
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Extend CICS' integrated digital signature support to include SOAP Headers.

The customer is sending a SOAP message to a business partner and requires one or more SOAP headers to be digitally signed. However, the CICS WS-Security implementation will only sign the SOAP *Body* in outbound messages, as discussed here: publib....
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Optimize instance number field in DFHJS2LS generated copybook

An option to predetermine the data type of the -num fields generated for optional fields from the input swagger file.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration