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Frequency based thresholding for policy rules and events

Please provide user customizable mechanism to only trigger if the monitored event occurs more than N times in X minutes. This would be useful for thresholding within a single task and for thresholding across tasks.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Option to isolate and end (looping) transactions in the JVM-Environment

We want to have the opportunity to isolate and end looping transactions in the JVM-Environment to avoid risking a JVM-Restart caused by the loop. We want to ensure the availability of the JVM for the rest of the transactions. We dont want to run...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic mechanism to get programs started when any CICS region initializes

We would like a feature that could run a program in any CICS region during initialization. This could be implemented such that an application makes a request to a CICS service to define a program and library and they would be started every time CI...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Propagate original Userid from CPSM interface / CICS Explorer (GSE requirement GGCIC10006)

Changes made through CICS explorer (CE) or the CPSM WUI are executed in the target region using the CICS region Userid rather than the original Userid.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Remote SYSID returned to caller after DPL (SHARE requirement SSCICS11013)

CICS should return the region/sysid/applid where the DPL request actually ran to the caller. Debugging and diagnositics will become much easier, especially in large shops that have dozens or even hundreds of AOR regions. The SYSID could be provide...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Enhance CEDF for MQ-Series API CALLs (GSE Requirement DBCICD98027)

The CEDF transaction only shows the parameters as a list of arguments for MQ-Series API calls.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide Default-SIT for HPO (HighPerformanceOption)

In CICS.SDFHAUTH is DFHSIT provided. Most of the parameters formerly have do be declared in your own SIT are now overwritable by PARM='SYSIN'-File. This is really good for administrative work.But for the HighPerformanceOption (HPO) we have to crea...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

make the MNFREQ parameter available for threadsafe environnement

We have application long running transactions executing on L8 TCB We noticed that MNFREQ parameter doesn't work for these kind of transactions So we would like not to wait the end of the CICS session to have a performance records written for these...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CESN DFHSNP XCTL to appending user program

Provide CESN DFHSNP on a successful Signon optionally append (XCTL) to a user specified program. The User program to be specified as INITPARM data at startup.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow custom DFHAPPL length

DFHAPPL is a unique EMP in that it survives a DELIVER, which is important to us because we use DBCTL and some DBCTL functions invoke a DELIVER EMP (I assume to allow separate stats per PSB). We would like to use DFHAPPL because of this ability but...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration