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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Cannot use a filter of blanks in CICS Explorer

CICS Explorer allows filters in views both in stored view and as "Quick Filters". However attemping to use one to show (or exclude) a character field that is blanks does not work. I have tried a quick experiment with the CMCI interface specifying ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

OTE, Threadsafe and Concurrency Statistics

As part of our threadsafe project, post execution, we review the changes to the programs' PPT definitions, after defining them as Concurrency: Threadsafe. We use: DFH0STAT, SMF 110 performance data and SYSVIEW. We review a number of statistics. Am...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

cics graphql support

On this years CAF you told us the future of the CMCI interface would be a graphql interface. After some investigations I now clearly see the advantage of this form of requests. So I would like to have a possibility for PL/1 / Cobol to do the same....
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Transport data to remote CICS programs and transactions

I need the ability to pass data to a CICS region when a request is made that results in a request to a remote CICS region within the same system or sysplex. This could include LINK PROGRAM or START TRANSID.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS TS activation module in DFHISTAR

CICS activation module should be processed in the DFHISTAR step.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS CPSM Timeout

There is a need for additional security in place in these times of cyber attacks became so often. Therefore, according to our IT Security Standards there should be a timeout set for all user sessions. This is meant by any user driven session to an...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

OAUTH2 for PL/1

We have the need for an OAUTH2 Support for Liberty and PL/1 in Cics. As we talked at the CAF with IBM Montpellier many customers for JSON Web Token is something many customers tend to walk at the moment.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

No multiline message for CWWKZ0001I

No multiline message for CWWKZ0001I
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve Sysplex Distributer / DVIPA routing for CICSplex

Today, a TCP/IP connection request comes to a specific DVIPA definition in TCP/IP and is essentially routed “round robin” across eligible LPARs and CICS regions. We want CPSM to influence which CICS region / LPAR is assigned to new DVIPA connectio...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

A Global User Exit for Program Check Recovery

Can we have a Global User Exit which is driven for program checks in a CICS region, similar to the PROGRAM_CHECK_RECOVERY mechanism which LE uses in its "shunt routines" to test pointers during its CEEDUMP processing. The consumer (probably an IBM...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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