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Populate CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST with file close time for closed files.

CPSM Local Files view always shows all zeroes for "GMT file close time" and for "Local time file was closed" for closed files. This is because CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST are always zeroes when file statistics are extracted. They ...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Use CICS Policy to replace CPSM RTA functionality (Check if LU62 Connection is Aquired)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for LU62 Connection Acquired to CICS, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do c...
29 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

TCSACTN=FORCE terminates hung LU6.2 VTAM connections even if CNOS close processing has not completed

As it stands right now during a shutdown hang, TCSACTN=FORCE will not close down LU6.2 parallel connections until after CNOS close processing has completed. Once a region begins to shutdown and gets to the process of terminating of VTAM sessions, ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Exit blocking unencrypted CICS outbound connections

In todays IT world, where business security is top priority, it would be useful to have a possibility of blocking unencrypted outbound CICS TCPIP connections (WebServices, HTTP connection).
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between upda...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Provide a new option for how CICS should recover from a storage violation

Why is it useful? If I enable all CICS storage protection options (RENTPGM=PROTECT STGPROT=YES TRANISO=YES), define all programs with EXECKEY=USER, and define all transactions with ISOLATE=YES, I can be reasonably confident that any victim task of...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add policy for JVM status

Many resources can be monitored via policies, but not a JVM. Please add the "JVM enable status" to the list of possible system policy rules
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Turn CICS trace, DFHTRAP, or Stg Violation checker ON or OFF based on CICS issuing a message or on matching a CICS Policy

Some customers will not run with CICS internal trace active all the time, especially in production. But there are times where we will need to turn CICS diagnostic features on to capture diagnostics. If the event being diagnosed is not easily repro...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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