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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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ESB for Cics Liberty

I didn't found something for the ESB so I made this RFE in the CIcs Queue. We provide a SOA Environment with an Enterprise Service Bus an ODM and an Process Engine (not from IBM). In this Environment we face one big problem and this is the staging...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

capability to know workload in target region group for workload flow control

When target region group doesn't have the capability to run more workload. Customer wants a routing failure when routing from TOR to AOR.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

MQ GETWAIT INTERVAL not correctly honored

MQ GETWAIT REQUEST takes longer than what has been coded in the INTERVALWAIT parameter. It seems that the cics dispatcher doesn't include the INTERVAL value (timeout) when it handle the request from MQ.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Local ASSIGN APPLICATION

For local testing it is very bad to develop and when you want to test suddenly you have to stop when you come to Cics components. Some months ago someone of the Lab asked if we are interesed in this topic. I didn't find the time, but now I can say...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

JSON web services assistant to output messages in user's native language

Update the JSON web services assistant to output messages in the following languages according to the operating system locale: French (fr)German (de)Spanish (es)Italian (it)Turkish (tr)Korean (ko)Japanese (ja)Simplified Chinese (zh)
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add a COBOL GOBACK after the translated code for EXEC CICS RETURN so that COBOL compiler knows end of current program.

Change the CICS translator for COBOL so that it adds GOBACK code after the translated code for EXEC CICS RETURN. This will enable the COBOL compiler to know that this is the end of the current program and can inline called procedures to give bette...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 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.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS region synchonization

CICS needs to provide a mechanism to ensure that CICS regions can be synchronized at start up with an existing instance. This would require that a new instance of a CICS region checks a common source (e.g. CF date table) for current state of resou...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

RFE for Pipeline PRVIDENH corrupted; possible HFS access conflict issue

Overview of the issue : The pipeline is getting disabled when there is a problem copying the configuration file from the HFS directory. (Please refer to the PMR "82719 122 000 " for more details). Enhancement : As suggested per the PMR, we would l...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Need an INUSEBY option for all CEMT INQ restype(xxxxxxxx)

We need a new 'INUSEBY' option for all CEMT INQ restype(xxxxxxxx) (and SPI interface as well) to return list of tranid/task# that are currently using that specified resource. It would be only for non-generic queries.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration