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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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...
4 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Submitted

Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SIAP 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 ...
9 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

It would be nice to be able to group multiple CICSPlexes in explorer as a context

We have multiple CICSPlexes in our non production environment, all connected to the same maintenance point CMAS. It would be nice to be able to group multiple CICSPlexes into a group and specify the group as the CONTEXT in explorer. I can think of...
24 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 0 Under review

Improve Diagnostics for in IPCONN Auto-Install capability

Background : We are in the process of evaluating and deploying the IPCONN Auto-install facility and have constructed a program in line with the published template albeit for z/OS Connect and not CTG. Issue : During the evaluation / verification we...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1

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
about 2 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 ...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

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 ...
about 2 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 ...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

SMF110 - Log DFHDS0102 Percentage Ratios to SMF; both QR/CPU ratio; Dispatch Interval ratio

Log to SMF110; Ratios for: DFHDS0102 I 09/14/2025 07:04:40 CICSQCPR QR TCB CPU / dispatch ratio: nn.nn%. QR TCB dispatch / interval ratio: nn.nn% This is for consistancy rather than manually calculating. Performance consistancy with statistics rep...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

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