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CICS T/S Named Counter services - externalize the actual name of the Named Counter within statistics

CICS provides detailed Named Counter Pool statistics but it should also externalize the actual names of the Named Counters using the pool along with detailed usage for each counter. I'm told by IBM that CFRTRFLD in DFHNCCF has the Named Counter na...
6 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
7 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in OMEGAMON for JVM

OMEGAMON for JVM (and record SMF 123) doesn't provide CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in z/OS Connect Server OAS3 native. This is a requirement for the client to get this information to be able to monitor and analyze perfo...
10 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Under review

REPLTEXT statements should also support the RENAME STAMP/NOSTAMP option

Users requested the ispf stats be updated so as to know when a member was modified by the REPLTEXT
10 days ago in IBM Data Set Commander 1 Under review

Enable the Surrogate check for INTRDR with XUSER=NO

Hi Team, Currently we use XUSER=NO, and we are looking forward to activate surrogate check only to INTRDR. Keeping XUSER=NO and activating the below toggles doesn't help the surrogate check for the jobs running through INTRDR.com.ibm.cics.spool.su...
11 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

IBM z Omegamon for CICS missing capabilities

Poste Italian, an Italian Bank postal office, but also a bank, telephone provider and insurance company, was complaining about the following bullets below: In the KCPTASHP view, the “Programs” section includes a list of the routines called by each...
13 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 1 Under review

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
16 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

QA Checks in the z/OS Connect EE API3 designer

Problem Statement : One of the risks of the bottom-up approach is that CBL software engineers create API's which don't adhere to ethos of what a good API should look like and behave. Abstraction can be a 'remote' concept to some m/f developers !! ...
18 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
19 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Monitoring CTG XA Limit

We want to know the current number of inflight XA transactions and total number of XA requests processed for XA transactions. The peak number of XA transactions inflight at the same time. For an alert to be issued when you reach an 80% of your max...
21 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS 0 Under review