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Amendment in DFHWB0112I XMEOUT parameters/Message inserts

CICS doesn't really need an additional check (i.e. option 3) for secured SSL connection (HTTPS) while web domain initialization. Instead, this should be checked during HTTP authentication for the requests that are made using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

When trying to configure the WUI CMCI JVM in our recently upgraded CTS 6.1 sandpit WUI, a problem was identified to do with the configuration of the keystore which uses crypto hardware. Each time the WUI restarted it would change safkeyringhw to s...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Provide monitoring data for current number of tasks in TRANCLASS at task attach

CICS provides the performance class monitoring CURTASKS field (id 434) in the DFHTASK group. This field records the number of tasks inside the system at the time of task attach, which is very helpful when understanding retrospectively how rapidly ...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow cicstags.yaml code to exclude DFHHC0801W for CICS_CAT3_CONFIGURATION

After upgrading to CICS TS 6.1 these messages would come out in the JESMSGLOG every 30 minutes when the zOS health checker runs: +DFHHC0801W CICSX0 Transaction CESF does not invoke program DFHSFP. +DFHHC0801W CICSX0 Transaction CESL does not invok...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHAM4838 Duplicate Definition - display the Groups.

Display the Existing Definition Group and the duplicate New Definition Group; make cleanup easier, when definition in multiple groups; can visually see in message, DFHAM4838 E PAR1CICG 749 Install of DB2ENTRY KEDR failed because an existing defi...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Reduce and/or eliminate CICS statistics with zero use count

Can there be a toggle to suppress cutting statistics records if there is no activity? Deciding which to suppress could be different for different records and different customers, so I'm asking for something that I'm not sure there is a good (easy)...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

be able to get channel DFHTRANSACTION in JCICS

in JCICS there is a Task.getTask().getChannel("DFHTRANSACTION"); in the doc it say The named Channel object if it exists, or null if it does not. The named channel will only be returned if it is the current channel, or if it was previously created...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow CICS to share SSL Keyrings even if they run under different userIDs

Hi, Currently a CICS region can only use the SSL keyring that is owned by the region owner ID. We can't share same keyring between multiple regions if they run under different owner IDs. With the increase in number of CICS regions, its becoming ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Issue a message when a CICS maintained Shared Data Table (CMT) is full

When a user maintained shared data table (UMT) is full, the request fails and a DFHFC0432 message is produced. When a CMT is full, the request will not fail because it will be written to the backing file, but it would be useful for a message to be...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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