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TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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Resources auto-installation

Customers has pain on resource definition and install, and management. This requirement is from ICBC, GMCC and others. In their system, there are lots of resources need to be defined, especially the transaction definition. Normally there are over ...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Warpper CICS API, which removes the pre-compile stage

ICBC want TXSeries to provide a set of stub program of C/C++ language, which is the wrapper of CICS API. By using this, there are two advantages:1. Reduce the time of pre-compile. 2. They can debug their application in their desktop using normal C...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Estimation of WebSphere TX and MQ support VMware ESXi: 5.0 or5.1 , Windows Server 2012 R2

I am CITA of nochu bank and they started S/I project which renew financial systems which include WebSphere TX and MQ. But now, WebSphere TX and MQ not support Windows 2012 R2 and VSphere V5.0,5.1. Please give information for future support plan fo...
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for Outbound Web services

Requirement received from the BoC customer visit during Q3, 2013. BoC would like the ability to invoke a Web service from within a TXSeries application.
almost 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

External File Handler with IBM COBOL on Windows

Can we have the EXTFH (SFS, DB2, ORACLE etc) support feature added to IBM COBOL on windows platform.  <br />The EXTFH with earlier releases of CICS/OS2 and CICS/Windows used BTRIEVE file system.    IBM COBOL shipped with ...
about 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

Region clustering

Can TXSeries regions clustered to make recycling more easier ?
about 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support to execute system command in TxSeries

I received one call from one China bank customer. They want to execute some unix commands inside TxSeries. The similar requirement from other bank who want to run batch from TxSeries. This is a common requirement.
about 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

WTX 8.4.1 on Datapower needed by customer Credit Agricole

Credit Agricole is using WTX Studio and WTX Server on Datapower for the NICE Project.They need to import about 500 Cobol Copybooks to transform them in XML data , where they will be finally exposed in a SOAP Webservice. WTX on datapower is doing t...
over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

HIX 820 Support for Healthcare Reform

With the implementation of Health Care Reform, it appears that use of the Health Insurance Exchange Related Payments (HIX 820) transaction (version 005010X306) is going to be mandated. This will need to be implemented in the Oct 2013 time frame, a...
over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements to the XA Resiliency feature

The XA resiliancy feature was introduced in TXSeries v6.2 to increase the up-time of TXSeries regions in the event of XA errors caused by resource manager failures. This feature mandates applications to handle resource specific errors. This can be...
over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration