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Change Default values for DFHAID Copybook

We need the defaults changed in the DFHAID copybook to be compatible with GIT/DBB. The special characters are not round tripping from GIT to z/OS for DBB builds. In z/OS it displays as this "double bar" 02 DFHCLRP PIC X VALUE IS '¦'.In GIT this is...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

CICS Preprocessor LIB option

The CICS preprocessor creates required COBOL Compiler Options including the LIB command. The LIB option is no longer supported with COBOL 5 and 6. Please create a CICS('cobol5') option which can be included in COBOL Compiler Option directives to m...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

CICS Liberty servers are unable to tolerate changing zFS mount points

Every CICS JVMserver region has to shut down when an lpar holding the HFS mount point is IPL'd and the mount point gets moved to another lpar. Having to shut down all these regions would defeat the purpose of a CICSPlex for high availability. whic...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Identify the Maintenance Point(s) of a CICSPLEX in the Job Log of a CMAS

Many Times when Trying to locate the Maintenance Point of a CICSplex I would navigate the Pages of the CPSM Web User Interface. It would be nice to externalize/identify the Maintenance Point in the Job Log of the CMAs. Automation Packages can then...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Include TLS Level information in CICS performance data record

Currently for CICS regions that is not relying on TCPIP for security, the CICS performance data does not have the TLS level information that was selected during SSL Handshake for the incoming web requests. The CICS performance data should be exten...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

No charge 'try before you buy' edition of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

Many existing CICS Transaction Server customers would like to be able to 'try before they buy' the latest features and functions of the latest CICS Transaction Server releases, before they commit to a production upgrade. A 'try before you buy' edi...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 16 Delivered

Prevent CMAS termination with EYUXC0023S and EYUXC0024S if request for dataspace storage is from end-user query

When a user in the WUI or CICS Explorer issues a query, CPSM creates a result set within the CPSM Dataspaces for the CMAS where the user connected. If CPSM needs to expand a dataspace and is unable to do so due to storage constraints, the CMAS wil...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

DFHWS2LS generation of more than 99 copybooks

The IBM documentation states: "REQMEM=valueSpecifies a 1- to 6-character prefix that DFHWS2LS uses to generate the names of the partitioned data set members [...] It generates the member name by appending a 2-digit number to the prefix". This rest...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Make CICS time machine tool support CICS TS 5.1

CICS time machine is a useful and simple to use tool to change date & time within a CICS region.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

add PROTECT option on START CHANNEL similar to START

Need PROTECT option on START CHANNEL. Currently the only options available are TERMID, USERID and SYSID.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered