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Excluding transactions from a policy

ICBC wants to use the policy to limit the DB2 requests, CPU time and storage, but they haven't adopt CICS cloud yet, then they need to use policy with region scope. And there are some transactions in their system need to long run, or need to acces...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Identify the jobnames of the batch requests via EXCI.

Customer would like to identify the jobnames of the batch requests via EXCI. He suggested to put this information in the PHAPPLID (APPLID from previous hop data) field and additionaly in the DFHSN1500 message.Customer has pointed that there is a W...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

CICS/Liberty prevent immediately open of port

CICS/Liberty should open TCP/IP ports of the JVM before the application services are initialized.This maybe implemented as an option to be activated.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

New Policy to cancel tasks that use very large containers

It would be good if a policy could detect (and possibly purge) the tasks that use larger containers of a specified size as it is possible to do with those that occupy more than xGb of User or Shared GDSA
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Real-time display of QR TCB usage and CPU/DISP ratio

Knowledge Center states the following: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/tuning/dfht3c0020.html "To calculate the approximate time since CICS statistics were last reset, add the values of "Accum time in MVS™ wait" and "Ac...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Open CICS - TCPIPS automatically after a TCP/IP restart

CICS - TCPIPS goes to closed state if any outage in TCP/IP, but it does not open automatically when the TCP/IP is back. We have to manually open the TCPIPS in CICS using CEMT. Can the CICS-TCPIPS set to open state as automatic when the TCPIP ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Purge CDBT txn

System: CDBT txnActor: Purge CDBT Ability to "PURGE" CDBT txn. Situation arises when IMS is failing and several CICS regions simultaneously issue CDBC DIS IMM to "failing" IMS.IMS appears to only handle a set number DISCONNECTS from CICS. This res...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

SSL Certificate expiration advanced warning in CICS

When an SSL certificate used in a CICS region expires, it can take time and sometimes a region cycle or other outage to update it. There is currently no warning message in CICS that an SSL certificate is about to expire.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

jsonnonjavaprovider & Remote Tranid

It would be interesting to have the same behaviour when we use NOSOAP webservice with Configfile jsonnonjavaprovider, as the one we have when we use jsonjavaprovider or when we use SOAP webservices. When we use nonjava (jsonnonjavaprovider), CPSM ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered