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This RFE is satisfied by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.6 which is Generally Available today 12th June 2020.
For more information see the CICS TS V5.6 Knowledge Center https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.6.0/whats-new/intro.html#intro__jcicsx-api
This RFE is satisfied by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.6 which was announced on 7th April 2020 and which has a planned availability date of 12th June 2020.
For more information see the CICS TS V5.6 announcement letter
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS220-077/index.html&request_locale=en
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
This is a candidate for a future release.
If an agent could be installed in the target JVM, and some simple configuration in the Eclipse debugger to specify host/port/ID/Password.
When a debug session starts, it could establish a session with the host JVM, each JCICS call could be part of that session so Transaction management would be consistent as if it were running local.
This ability would enable to more traditional debug options in Java development to work seamlessly with CICS hosted JVMs using the JCICS interface. Today without this option, we need to stub out the JCICS calls in order to test locally which our developers would prefer to avoid and really they need to see the real behavior of the JCICS calls.
I believe this would also give our efforts to expand the Java usage on the mainframe a big boost as well.