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    Asynchronous requests connect Mother transaction with Child transaction in RACF to allow Mother Trans to run Child

    We use asynchronous requests to enhance existing SOA architecture solutions to introduce API calls to Cloud. Often an API call will be added to a number of existing CICS transactions (Mothers). Today we have to identify all run users of Mother CIC...
    10 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

    Remove DFHSI8443 message after DFHMQ0320I

    As indicated in the TS019799368 case, when a message similar to .... +DFHMQ0320I 22/06/2025 05:16:05 J1M1PA01 The CICS-MQ Adapter cannot find MQNAME MQP0. The CICS will never connect when the QMGR start (a CEMT SET MQC CONNECT command is required)...
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2

    Configurable PURGE for unresponsive CICS tasks on IPIC timeout to z/OS Connect EE

    This enhancement proposes adding a new configuration option within the CICS region or connection definition to allow customers to control the task termination behaviour when a CICS task attached via z/OS Connect EE over an IPIC session fails to re...
    26 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Update CESL do allow for 128-byte passphrases.

    This will make passphrases more secure with the additional 28 bytes. It looks to be a common maximum passphrass size.
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    When allocation/open fails DFHFC0500, display conflict information somewhere

    Right now, when this situation occurs, it is sometimes difficult and labor intensive to figure out why this happened. Sometimees requiring scanning SMF data, looking at dumps, etc. Would be helpful to display the conflict information (usually zOS ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Cics should support HTTP/2

    there is many vulnerabilities in HTTP/1.1 and it will be nice if CICS do support HTTP/2
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Make CICS WEB interface threadsafe and optimize throughput and response time in CICS and maybe save a little CPU

    IBM has an undocumented fix to the CICS WEB interface that can optimize throughput and response time plus maybe save a little CPU.The fix is very simple, as it is just a change of the definitions of three WEB interface modules which get added the ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

    The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
    almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Add fields to the CPSM CICSRGN Resource Table so as to be able to compute the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval ratio

    This would make it easier to monitor the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval Ratio. As it is right now, MSGUSR for each CICS region has to be scanned for the DFHDS0102 message. The items needed to calculate this value, or the value itself, could be put int...
    9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Functionality already exists

    Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SOAP Web Services

    One of the 'issues' with CICS WS SOAP based services is that XSD validation needs to switched off in live Prodn operation due to the overheads involved. Could though the use of OSR's (Optimised Schema Defns) help here and provide a route by which ...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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