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Customer requirements answered in CICS TS 6.1

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Abstract

This document lists the customer requirements that are delivered or partially satisfied in IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) version 6.1. These requirements are also known as Ideas and were previously known as requests for enhancements (RFEs).

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 V6.1, 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
CICSTS-I-21 41834 Unable to set Validate on XMLTRANSFORM
CICSTS-I-38 82829 Excluding transactions from a policy
CICSTS-I-44 83364 Allow Filtering on CICS system Policies
CICSTS-I-70 38799 DFHEISUP delivered with RMODE24 and is 7MB in size
CICSTS-I-123 41451 Allow setting a context with a central text field rather than selection
CICSTS-I-126 41454 filter CICSPlex Explorer View
CICSTS-I-138 42393 Use policy to monitor specific transactions
CICSTS-I-205 104508 DFH$MOLS sample for printing monitoring data does not break out specific RMI times
CICSTS-I-267 110516 Customize the interval for CHCK transaction
CICSTS-I-307 118963 Temporary storage cleanup in CF
CICSTS-I-316 123011 We want to use systemsymbols (variables) in Library RDO DSN fields
CICSTS-I-379 74867 Ability to choose multiple items for a certain policy rule
CICSTS-I-392 75551 Provide a means to limit the permitted ciphers within a CICS region
CICSTS-I-411 91861 Support wild-cards in the entry point of policy definitions
CICSTS-I-440 134735 New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers
CICSTS-I-450 135402 Define a default cipher list used for CICS outbound webservices
CICSTS-I-477 88855 Add TCPIPServer vs. URIMap as Message Insert in DFHSO0123
CICSTS-I-508 143467 CICS Dump formatter should report equivalent to DFHAP1500
CICSTS-I-534 100241 Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record
CICSTS-I-543 146442 CICS Explorer - Context/Scope Fastpath
CICSTS-I-546 107409 User set in CICS Liberty TAI should be accounted in SMF
CICSTS-I-550 108941 Prevent CICS third stage initialization from completing until all JVMs either become enabled or produce an error
CICSTS-I-578 114166 Option to suppress DFHHC0102I msg if customer doesn't use Health Checker
CICSTS-I-589 116718 DFHSN1100 - Add Client IP Address (TNADDR)
CICSTS-I-597 43087 variables in LIBRARY definitions
CICSTS-I-613 116099 Link to Liberty CDI Bean Support
CICSTS-I-617 116768 New message ID for CF structure usage decreasing
CICSTS-I-626 41447 Definition Views should contain CSDGroup as default column
CICSTS-I-645 125141 Improve doc about security in CICS TS
CICSTS-I-654 126012 Implement EXEC CICS EXTRACT STATISTICS POLICY SPI command
CICSTS-I-655 126013 Implement EXEC CICS INQUIRE POLICY SPI command
CICSTS-I-679 134184 Possibility to use a VSAM PATH in a //EYUDREP DD card
CICSTS-I-717 134362 Add details of the number of times a transaction has been purged due to tranclass limits
CICSTS-I-727 135168 Removing Index table limitation for CICS Data tables
CICSTS-I-743 139455 Include TLS Level information in CICS performance data record
CICSTS-I-758 141275 Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes
CICSTS-I-768 143135 CICS Explorer: Present list of BATCHREP dataset members
CICSTS-I-770 144066 CICS message for TCP/IP connection failure during startup
CICSTS-I-775 146713 Make GMTRAN EXIT / DISCONNECT setting available to user transactions
CICSTS-I-780 148042 Support multiple conditions per Policy system rule
CICSTS-I-781 148269 There isn't any journal automatic recovery when ENF48 is received from logger.
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-850 107436 Provide more granularity in SSL/TLS Protocols
CICSTS-I-852 108073 Limit the storage a JVM can use in the CICS region
CICSTS-I-879 117220 Make job output switchable
CICSTS-I-886 118413 Too much information revealed about logon failues
CICSTS-I-891 120946 Error message when no UserID provided to web service
CICSTS-I-895 123599 typing multiple characters in the "CICS Explorer" view
CICSTS-I-900 125175 System Policy Rule for TSQueue Capacity
CICSTS-I-904 126014 Modify EXEC CICS INQUIRE FEATURETOGGLE to show the source of the toggle
CICSTS-I-917 133361 @CICSProgram Annotation in OSGi Java Applications
CICSTS-I-928 #N/A Federated Registry support for CICS Liberty
CICSTS-I-937 141775 CICS should never loop endlessly when gathering statistics and writing them out to SMF
CICSTS-I-941 142128 CICS Task policy at transaction level
CICSTS-I-943 #N/A DFHDPLOY getting RC 8 for Autoinstalled PGMs
CICSTS-I-945 143600 Purge CDBT txn
CICSTS-I-946 143767 Lack of options in START CHANNEL
CICSTS-I-951 146442 CICS Explorer - Enhancements to the CSD Resource Groups View.
CICSTS-I-959 151496 CJSA attached after CICS shutdown initiated
CICSTS-I-960 151619 Extend CICS Write Operator to include console name / id
CICSTS-I-963 #N/A CMCI under JVMSERVER doesn't work with hardware certificates
CICSTS-I-972 121464 Add cipher suite file option to WEB OPEN
CICSTS-I-1048 18312 CICS Explorer Scope Selection Filters (SHARE requirement SSCICS11007)
CICSTS-I-1104 17521 Global transaction - avoidance of timeout/deadlock in a WAS trans. accessing a DB2 resource both directly and through CICS
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-1580 25782 Provide mask function on RASGNDEF override
CICSTS-I-1622 36860 CICS tran dump threshold
CICSTS-I-1637 40267 Allow update to origin data (User Correlation Data) via a call in addition to XAPADMGR
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-1792 70788 CEDA EX LI(*) GR(ABCD) with CicsExplorer
CICSTS-I-1815 73553 CIPHERs for OutBound Web Services
CICSTS-I-1832 74871 Allow multiple URIMaps pointing to same URI/URL
CICSTS-I-1851 37535 Access to URIMAP ID in converter program
CICSTS-I-1877 123852 CICS Ability to see RACF/ACF2 Security Violations
CICSTS-I-1890 127882 Keep CICS cipher defaults up-to-date
CICSTS-I-1891 128810 Linkable Bridge : DFHL3270 in router region to DPL under unique Tranid other than CSMI
CICSTS-I-1906 138068 add PROTECT option on START CHANNEL similar to START
CICSTS-I-1909 139623 SMSS regions to support the CMCI JVM server and therefore to support MFA and the aggregation function
CICSTS-I-1911 140298 Add support for 64-bit storage to EXEC CICS INQUIRE STORAGE
CICSTS-I-1913 141104 Allow use of System Symbols in CICS LIBRARY resource
CICSTS-I-1918 142428 Save contents of CICS resource view in a folder
CICSTS-I-1919 142432 CICS Explorer - The ability to set the Contxt and Scope fields
CICSTS-I-1921 143145 Enhance INVOKINGPROG to provide program name even in a 3-region hop
CICSTS-I-1922 143228 Have CICS record in SMF what TLS level is used in TCPIP conne;ctions.
CICSTS-I-1935 147050 Identify the jobnames of the batch requests via EXCI.
CICSTS-I-1941 152446 Make CICS Transaction CSGM CAT 3
CICSTS-I-1955 153352 Timestamp for each last TCLASS Max - like Time Last MAX Task reached.
CICSTS-I-1956 153525 Pass abending program to CICS Policy system Transaction abend EP adapter
CICSTS-I-1958 149640 add install onto the WLMDEF table
CICSTS-I-1959 149838 Improved channel usage with RUN TRANSID
CICSTS-I-1962 154052 Add MQMONITOR name to CKTI messages
CICSTS-I-1976 151802 Enhance EXPIRY processing TS-queues performance
CICSTS-I-1978 152477 Change Default values for DFHAID Copybook
CICSTS-I-1984 151995 WLMDEF Table - Wildcard Character Usage
CICSTS-I-2013 24788 A lock conflict issue when DPL access a table through the different CICS path multi-times.
CICSTS-I-2029 #N/A Improvements when handling WS-AT requests in a very constrained system.
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-2084 #N/A Add ability to pass settings for System SSL environment variables
CICSTS-I-2087 #N/A WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k
CICSTS-I-2139 #N/A Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS
CICSTS-I-2184 #N/A Option to send message DFHMP* to syslog/consoles when policies are triggered

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Product Synonym

CICS/TS CICS TS CICS Transaction Server

Document Information

Modified date:
10 September 2025

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