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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

Add a Operations view for displaying UOW information

Explorer is not showing UOW information from table unit of work (UOW). For this information we need to switch to the WUI or run rexx scripts to read the UOW table. Can you please add a view to display this information.
16 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Under review

CICSPlex SM Web User Interface - Search in menu

When using CICSPlex SM Web User Interface it is difficult to get to the specific menu. According to its documentation there is a translation for views and their description. It would be more easy having a search option where queries can be typed i...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Not under consideration

Allow the option to set DNSCACHE on a URIMAP level vs the region level.

In 6.1 IBM introduced the ability for CICS to cache IP addresses for outbound web requests. In 6.2 this was updated to put messages out if the ip address returned in from the DNS call change from what is in the CICS cache. CICS checks the DNS ever...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Under review

Add SPURGE column to CICS Explorer Local Transaction Perspective

Would be good to view Transactions without SPURGE=YES.
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Functionality already exists

Replace message EYUXS1004W with a message ending in a (I)

CPSM issue a sequence of messages today to inform us the CMAS ran out of some storage pool. the CMAS recovers this automatically and keeps on going on. The sequence of messages are: EYUXS1004W followed by EYUXS1005I. As a user we can do nothing ab...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Future consideration

Reconnect Upon TCP/IP AT-TLS Failure

Determine if CICSPlex S/M (CPSM) can provide alerting/reconnect TCPIPService connections being placed in a "Closed" as opposed to an "Opened" state... We recently had an AT-TLS failure that caused all CICS regions to be recycled to establish conne...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Functionality already exists

MASINITTIME CICSPLEX Parm should accept value in Minutes and seconds.

Hi Team, In present scenario, MASINITTIME accept the value in minutes, from 5 to 59 minutes and the default is 10 minutes. My ask is MASINITTIME should accept the value in minutes and seconds, also it should accept the range below 5 minutes, so th...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Under review

CICS VSAM LSR Pool Buffers Above the Bar. (64bit)

VSCR below the Bar, in the 31 bit address range. We find that of the EDSALIM Max of 2400M, we can only go to 1300M +- for application usage, due to LSR Pool Buffers. If LSR above the bar (64 bit), we could allocate more for application user EUDSA....
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Under review

New CICS Task Policy User ID Policy and Initial Program

Create New CICS Task Policy User ID Policy and Initial Program, For our CICS regions, we use unique UserID's for both zCEE and CTG. Frequently, we get a user, that submits a request to zCEE or CTG that is designed for MQ; not using Initial Program...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Not under consideration

New CICS API to FORCE switch TCB from QR to L8 (THREADSAFE)

Today, for a program to benefit from the advantages of TREADSAFE, it necessarily needs to access DB2 or MQUEUE, a functionality that not all programs have in their code. A second way is to define the program with the parameter CONCURRENCY=REQUIRED...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Needs more information

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