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CPSM Monitoring Tasks Threadsafe - CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED)

Enable the CPSM Monitoring Tasks to run as Threadsafe; running on an Open TCB, CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED). Currently, they run on the QR TCB; and the sampling and occupancy of the QR seems significant, impacting the normal business transaction applicat...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record. We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day. There are so many different ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

The ability for CICS to capture data and graph into Grafana/Promethius.

We would like a similar capability that MQ supplies via GitHub that provides capabilities to format display data and allows you to graph it via Grafana/Promethius. This request would not be for a separate chargeable product but provided either in ...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SMF 110 Data to include Lock Details

We recently have had several problems related to LM waits and security delays but have not been able to use SMF data to identify the cause of the LM waits. If we're lucky enough to get a dump we might be able to see tasks waiting on a US lock, but...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to link CICS WLM Quiesce status to zOS WLMHealth

When a CICS region is quiesced in CICS Plex System Management Work Load Management, the region is seen as unhealthy by CICSPlex System Management so it will be much less likely to to route work to it from other CICS regions in the same CICSPlex th...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Abend task if target program specified on PCT not DFHMIRS

On a DPL and Mirror Tranid Specified, Abend task if target program specified on target CICS PCT not DFHMIRS. We use a lot of zCEE and CTG. Been running into issues where CICS Administrator, specifies the target program name (application program ID...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

a new command if you have a address that is returned from a exec cics getmain it will be nice to able to ask CICS the size of the getmained area

if you are using getmain shared from one program and you get the address passed to a another program it will be nice if there was a command where you can ask cics storage manager how long the getmained area is from program number 2. cics do know i...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow DFHJVM* logs to roll based on file size

We recently upgraded to CICS 6.1 and encountered an unexpected log message from a Liberty JVM. It wasn't frequent enough to trigger alarms in test, but did once it went to production, filling our logging partition. We attempted to delete the massi...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHLIST automatically defined and installed by CICS; not on LIST=

DFHLIST automatically defined and installed by CICS; not on LIST=. If were automatically defined by CICS; would free up one of the 4 LIST= slots. items in DFHLIST needed in order for CICS to start; why not define automatic as part of the CICS init...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Please consider adding a monitoring field / 110 record field to track CPU time consumed by TCB switches caused by code not being threadsafe

Considering that an effort to migrate a customer's suite of applications to be threadsafe can be difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive and risky, it would be very beneficial to have a mechanism the help objectively quantify the potent...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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