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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Discontinue MVS getmains for NQ element areas when EDSA is depleted.

Currently, when ECDSA is depleted, NQ element areas are getmain'd from high private. This can ead to a situation, particularly when there is perhaps a rogue transaction in a loop, where instead of an SOS condition which can be remediated with dtim...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Self Protect against issues with the File Open Feature

Currently if a user opens certain files (ie: MS Office .xls, .doc, etc.) via the CICS Explorer File Open Option CICS Explorer will lock up to the point where the user must Open Task Manager and Kill CICS Explorer. CICS Explorer workspace corruptio...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

GUI based BMS with CICS webservice backend

Is is possible to design a GUI front-end type BMS map and pass data via wsbind/wsdl to a back-end CICS program? The 3270 bridge is limited and not at all pretty.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Request audit information for transaction channel

Customer needs audit information for the containers put into the transaction channel to know which program modifies it. Transaction channel is used to pass data in the transaction level, the container put by a program can be read/modify by other f...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic change of CCSID on CICS Web Services

Dynamic change CCSID on CICS Web service to use same CICS Web service for more code pages in same CICS region.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Auto install Web Service in CICS at first invocation

Auto install of web service in CICS first time it is invoked to avoid all Web Services to be installed at start of CICS.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex wide support TRANCLASS

TRANCLASS definitions should be able to be defined as CICSPlex wide, rather than only region wide. This would ensure that the MAXACTIVE value is for the entire CICSPlex.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request CICS Web services dynamic pas language PL/1 or Cobol

Web service request Web Services are either PL/1 or cobol. Enhance to pas the language dynamically to allow one Web Service to handle both.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow URIMAP endpoint overlay with pooling capability intact

The pooling feature of URIMAPs is highly efficient compaired to no-reuse of threads in Cics webservices. Having many different webservices being called FROM cics we would not be able to benefit from the pooling capability - unless Cics could open ...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

SOAP and conversion services errors using EBCDIC in Cics

All the possible code point coming in from i.e. Datapower in UTF8 can't be supported in Cics. The un-supported code points will be converted to x'3F' via conversion services by default. If a round trip of x'3F' is made then it will by default be c...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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