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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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

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

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....
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

New RDO field "OWNER" for CICS resources

Based on the increasing Audit requirements, we are expected to maintain owners of each CICS resource. This way we always know who owns each resource and identify any fraudulent usage. We are looking for a new RDO field for all CICS resources (OWNE...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add SPOOL wait time to monitoring clocks

In our monitoring offering we have been asked to provide a spool wait time as part of the overall transaction wait times. Most of the data we collect comes from the CICS monitoring clocks and counters interface however CICS does not provide a metr...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CicsTs liberty features in windows and linux

This RFE adresses the developer experience: 1) During development we need to change the maven dependencies in a way not fitting to a normal workflow (for example JCICS Classes). 2) with liberty features for windows and linux we could just take ser...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deployed resource files in Cics Bundle

This RFE adresses the developer experience: We have the need, that a developer wants to deploy extra files to the unix file system related to an application. -> application configuration file-> application resource file-> logging configur...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view AIDs (Automatic Initiate Descriptors)

Omegamon/CICS has the ability to view ICE and AID control blocks but Explorer only contains a View for ICEs. We would like an Operations View added to Explorer to view AIDs.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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