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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 requirement is satisfied by CICS TS 5.2 which is generally available from June 13th 2014.
This requirement is satisfied by CICS TS 5.2 which was announced 7th April 2014 with a planned general availability date of June 13th 2014. For more information see the IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, V5.2 announcement letter
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS214-107
This requirement is satisfied by CICS TS 5.2 which was announced 7th April 2014 with a planned general availability date of June 13th 2014. For more information see the IBM CICS Tools for z/OS, V5.2 announcement letter
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS214-107
This is something we would like to address. The RFE is being moved into 'Planned for Future release' status. Please note:
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The general desire to process text data through the CICS data mapping technology in UTF-16 is absolutely valid, and this isn't the first time it's been requested. However, even if the CICS data-mapping service is changed to support UTF-16, this will not remove the need for code-page conversion. SOAP messages are almost always sent in UTF-8, and the CICS Pipeline processes them in UTF-8, so a UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion will be unavoidable in most (probably all) scenarios.
The legitimate requirement is to remove the need for the intermediate EBCDIC data representation. It is perhaps worth noting that if the CICS supplied data mapping service is *not* used then it's feasible to avoid EBCDIC entirely. The underlying Pipeline in CICS does not care what data encoding is used. For example, the 'compiled' converter technology in RDz supports UTF-16 text.