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TXSeries for Multiplatforms

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Transaction Rate Monitoring for TXSeries

We use IBM Tivoli Monitoring to monitor our TX regions. Currently, the run count of transactions is provided, which represents the total number of transactions executed. The transaction rate, which refers to the number of transactions completed pe...
5 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Improve synchronization level 2 on IPIC

Currently synchronization level 2 on IPIC connection like CICS TS is not supported in TXSeries, should use SNA connection for CICS TS where synchronization level 2 is needed for data integrity of distribute transactions.This limit is what stops us...
6 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

override the userid and password in the XA_OPEN string of a TXSeries region

TXSeries region does connect to the database using the user specified in the XAD.stanza when the cicsas comes up that same user will be used by application programs throughout that process for all DB related queries. For security requirement need ...
7 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Show actual start time of the active tasks on "cicsadmin list task" command output

When we check the active tasks by using cicsadmin command, we noticed that the displayed start time of the tasks isn't correct. Instead of the actual start time, current time and date information, which belongs to the time when we run cicsadmin co...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

The usage of cicstermu from a remote system using SSH

It would be great for us if there is a way to use "cicstermu" from a remote system using SSH. This would give us an opportunity to automate actions to be launched from our management server. We can execute the shell script containing the cicstermu...
about 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Future consideration

Lock sharing of database tables between TXSeries and WAS

We are looking for a feature where Java EJB program and COBOL need to the update the same DB2 table without bothering about locks, even if they are against the fundamentals of XA protocol.
about 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release

Circular hops between Java and COBOL transactions

we have CICS applications that make circular hops between Cobol program and Java EJB application and they perform update on RDMBS database that are belong on same LUW ,need to work in two-phase commit . Opened same RFE on CICS TG CTG-I-134
about 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Planned for future release

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