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    Configurable PURGE for unresponsive CICS tasks on IPIC timeout to z/OS Connect EE

    This enhancement proposes adding a new configuration option within the CICS region or connection definition to allow customers to control the task termination behaviour when a CICS task attached via z/OS Connect EE over an IPIC session fails to re...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Callable Services & Other Ressources Access security and Traceability

    Callable services run within the CICS environment. In certain cases—such as ICSF—these services are critical, and so are the associated keys safeguarded in the Key Data Set (KDS). When a transaction performs encryption, CICS is granted access to t...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SOAP Web Services

    One of the 'issues' with CICS WS SOAP based services is that XSD validation needs to switched off in live Prodn operation due to the overheads involved. Could though the use of OSR's (Optimised Schema Defns) help here and provide a route by which ...
    about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Add SYSPLEX name to CP/SM resource table CICSRGN

    MVSSYSNAME and MVSSYSID are already there. Also make available in CICS Explorer and CPSM rest api
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    When allocation/open fails DFHFC0500, display conflict information somewhere

    Right now, when this situation occurs, it is sometimes difficult and labor intensive to figure out why this happened. Sometimees requiring scanning SMF data, looking at dumps, etc. Would be helpful to display the conflict information (usually zOS ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Enable turning USER EXITs on and off through CPSM, CICS Explorer, etc.

    Currently this can only be done through the CICS SPI. However, it's not hard to create an exit that locks everyone out of the native CICS black screen (in our case, this was the desired outcome, except for system users), and (as a side effect) pre...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Consistent SMF 110 Record generation for Long Running Transactions

    In our shop, we have long running transactions (LRT) that are primarily or entirely threadsafe. We have MNFREQ set to 1 minute and don't get consistent SMF 110 record generation for the LRTs. This may be because the LRT was not on the QR TCB when ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Make CICS WEB interface threadsafe and optimize throughput and response time in CICS and maybe save a little CPU

    IBM has an undocumented fix to the CICS WEB interface that can optimize throughput and response time plus maybe save a little CPU.The fix is very simple, as it is just a change of the definitions of three WEB interface modules which get added the ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Have the ability to control the maximum number of concurrent KAFKA messages to be processed

    We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic. After an outage, 100s of Kafka messages are flooding into CICS to be processed at the same time. This has the potential to cause all sort of issues for this servic...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

    Add an utility or a message code to make CEDA alter messages manageable to be sent to SYSLOG

    We were looking into a way of tracking any changes done (specially in CEMT and CECI) parameters using CEDA. To guarantee that their parameters are only updated through change records, and alerting if the transaction (or any other resource) paramet...
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

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