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Customer requirements answered in CICS TS 5.6

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Abstract

This document lists the customer requirements or requests for enhancements (RFEs) delivered in version 5.6 of IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS).

Content

As of March 2022, all existing RFEs from the IBM Request For Enhancement (RFE) Community were migrated to the IBM Z Software Ideas portal. Corresponding RFE numbers and Ideas are included in the table.

For more information about each Idea (customer requirement) that was delivered in CICS TS V5.6, click on the Idea Reference in the following table. This displays the request in the IBM Z Software Ideas portal

If you have an enhancement request that you need but it is not delivered yet, refer to Open and vote for an enhancement request for IBM Z Software products


CICS Transaction Server Ideas

Idea Reference RFE Description
ZOSPT-I-9 116734 zospt spring boot support
CICSTS-I-38 82829 Excluding transactions from a policy
CICSTS-I-43 43087 Variables in dynamic Library definition
CICSTS-I-44 83364 Allow Filtering on CICS system Policies
CICSTS-I-114 95173 Message after CICS has recovered last UOW during Emergency Restart
CICSTS-I-133 42228 JCics Maven Repository
CICSTS-I-138 42393 Use policy to monitor specific transactions
CICSTS-I-215 105936 CICS OSCORE SMF record
CICSTS-I-225 62074 Generate Java-/Heap-Dump from a running JVMServer
CICSTS-I-314 122876 jsonnonjavaprovider & Remote Tranid
CICSTS-I-316 123011 We want to use systemsymbols (variables) in Library RDO DSN fields
CICSTS-I-356 124699 SYSTEM Policy action to influence WLMHEALTH
CICSTS-I-362 125171 System Policy Rule for Pipeline Disable
CICSTS-I-370 72152 Run Remote Java JCICS calls from Eclipse desktop when developing new Java applications.
CICSTS-I-376 87009 Patching Applications without downtime
CICSTS-I-395 129305 UNLOCK FILE requests must be recorded to allow IIDR/VSAM to stop tracking READ UPDATEs in memory when REWRITE is not done
CICSTS-I-399 129424 Add DEFINESOURCE to TRANDUMP
CICSTS-I-410 77110 Support of http method patch in CICS
CICSTS-I-411 91861 Support wild-cards in the entry point of policy definitions
CICSTS-I-417 131937 Enhance AUXTRSW SIT Parm to off ALL option (like AUXTRSW)
CICSTS-I-428 132905 CICS/Liberty prevent immediately open of port
CICSTS-I-440 134735 New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers
CICSTS-I-478 139100 Improve documentation around MQMonitor
CICSTS-I-499 94554 SNI Support for outbound connections in CICS
CICSTS-I-508 143467 CICS Dump formatter should report equivalent to DFHAP1500
CICSTS-I-523 130577 Implement a "run on server" like function in the CICS Explorer SDK for CICS Java development testing
CICSTS-I-534 100241 Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record
CICSTS-I-538 101172 CICS Liberty servers are unable to tolerate changing zFS mount points
CICSTS-I-546 107409 User set in CICS Liberty TAI should be accounted in SMF
CICSTS-I-554 103473 CICS SMF 110 Model information is static
CICSTS-I-582 108551 Use CPSM real time analysis to influence z/OS WLM IWM4HLTH metric and z/OS WLM routing decisions
CICSTS-I-597 38900 variables in LIBRARY definitions
CICSTS-I-617 116768 New message ID for CF structure usage decreasing
CICSTS-I-622 118958 Custom Feature deployment support
CICSTS-I-626 41447 Definition Views should contain CSDGroup as default column
CICSTS-I-643 125055 Externalize the QRCPUT/QRDISPT ratio in a message and allow customization of threshold and how frequent the message comes out
CICSTS-I-649 125178 Allow enable/disable of transactions starting with C
CICSTS-I-650 125172 System Policy for DBCTL Connection Status
CICSTS-I-653 126010 Add TSMODEL name attribute to EXEC CICS INQUIRE TSQUEUE
CICSTS-I-662 128727 Display DFHCSD being accessed by CEDA/B/C
CICSTS-I-728 136876 CKTI abending when region goes SOS
CICSTS-I-733 61600 Can the CICS storage subpool TSICDATA in temp storage in ECDSA be moved to 64 bit storage?
CICSTS-I-758 141275 Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes
CICSTS-I-795 75575 Add http OPTIONS support for resources
CICSTS-I-805 81721 Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR
CICSTS-I-820 90680 Can policy function be defined to tasks?
CICSTS-I-823 92536 Using variables in the DSNAME field of Library RDO.
CICSTS-I-844 105644 Prevent CMAS termination with EYUXC0023S and EYUXC0024S if request for dataspace storage is from end-user query
CICSTS-I-879 117220 Make job output switchable
CICSTS-I-882 118388 CPSM should alert on dataspace utilization
CICSTS-I-900 125175 System Policy Rule for TSQueue Capacity
CICSTS-I-903 125173 System Policy for MQ connection status
CICSTS-I-906 126569 Remove 24 kb limit on COMMAREA if using DFHTRANSACTION channel
CICSTS-I-909 130058 Metrics for requests arrival rates - MQ and HTTP
CICSTS-I-910 34504 Z/os Explorer BAS Enhancements
CICSTS-I-913 131652 Modify MQMONITOR support for APPLID
CICSTS-I-919 134178 Real-time display of QR TCB usage and CPU/DISP ratio
CICSTS-I-921 134869 Optimize CICS/MQ Bridge error handling (enhanced ROUTEMEM)
CICSTS-I-939 142086 DFHWS2LS generation of more than 99 copybooks
CICSTS-I-941 142128 CICS Task policy at transaction level
CICSTS-I-943 #N/A DFHDPLOY getting RC 8 for Autoinstalled PGMs
CICSTS-I-963 #N/A CMCI under JVMSERVER doesn't work with hardware certificates
CICSTS-I-969 118389 make CPSM dataspace utilization available to automation
CICSTS-I-1174 23469 Put transaction and system dump tables in RDO (SHARE requirement SSCICS94012)
CICSTS-I-1199 24364 Support Symbolics in CICS File Definition DSNAME
CICSTS-I-1245 #N/A CICS Shared RACF KEYRING for SSL Support
CICSTS-I-1302 23769 CICS Dynamic RPL - Include Substitution qualifier option
CICSTS-I-1383 25007 Suppress SDUMP in CICS
CICSTS-I-1413 23735 Having SYSTEM DUMP CODE and TRANSACTION DUMP CODE managed as RDO object for CICS
CICSTS-I-1580 25782 Provide mask function on RASGNDEF override
CICSTS-I-1620 36778 Move EXCI security parameters from DFHXCOPT into ESM
CICSTS-I-1622 36860 CICS tran dump threshold
CICSTS-I-1644 41530 Dynamic Dataset Names using &USERID.
CICSTS-I-1689 61251 CICS configuration elements that need USS paths should allow use of symbols
CICSTS-I-1692 62230 Support for system and JCL symbols in CSD/BAS resources.
CICSTS-I-1725 29467 use dynamic substitution for group and list in the CSD
CICSTS-I-1824 73844 Liberty Profile applicaiton activation at once
CICSTS-I-1886 126506 COMMAREA's transported as CHANNELS
CICSTS-I-1894 129840 Support http-method PATCH
CICSTS-I-1905 137462 Add IMS reason code to CICS message DFHDB8111
CICSTS-I-1907 138506 CKTI Retry Logic
CICSTS-I-1909 139623 SMSS regions to support the CMCI JVM server and therefore to support MFA and the aggregation function
CICSTS-I-1910 139720 Issue message when DB2 Cancel Thread done,
CICSTS-I-1913 141104 Allow use of System Symbols in CICS LIBRARY resource
CICSTS-I-1959 149838 Improved channel usage with RUN TRANSID
CICSTS-I-1960 149795 Allow RDO definitions to refer to User Globals - in a dfhconfig/UserGlobal directory
CICSTS-I-2051 #N/A Provide support for http strict transport security
CICSTS-I-2064 #N/A Allow CICS to share SSL Keyrings even if they run under different userIDs
CICSTS-I-2139 #N/A Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

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Product Synonym

CICS/TS CICS TS CICS Transaction Server

Document Information

Modified date:
16 April 2024

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