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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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...
2 days 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....
7 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Under review

Possibility to specify more than one time range in PERIODEF

Hi, Sometimes, we need more than one time range to disable RTA (SAM or more) during a day. Currently, we can't specify more than one time range in PERIODEF associated with MAS regions and we can't associate more than one PERIODEF to MAS regions. S...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Under review

Customized CICS trace option

Existing CICS transactions are being enhanced and we are adding calls to external API's into the existing business logic. An API call comes with a latency often in seconds. This causes DB2 locks to be hold for longer time and is leading to timeout...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Under review

CICS webservices migration assistant tool to migrate existing WSDL as an openapi3 document. Thus, facilitating easy migration of CICS webservices to z/OS connect based API's

As CICS webservices feature is stabilized. We would like to convert existing webservices into json based api's. That could be exposed via z/OS Connect both for Provider and Requestor type services.Thus, a tool that can migrate exiting WSDL files, ...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other Under review