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    CICS Region AKP statistics

    CICS regions collect statistics on the number of AKPs that have been taken, these counts are reset based on the statistics interval. Often the statistics interval may be quite small, maybe 15 minutes, thus this makes it more difficult to look at A...
    6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    CPSM WLM Enhancement

    Customer needs an enhancement to the CPSM WLM Algorithm in order to improve the workload among the targets. The customer has a single CICSPlex running across two Sysplexes. The environment is large enough that it not possible to merge the existing...
    over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Facilitate use of COBOL records in EXEC SQL multi-row operations.

    Given a COBOL record like01 X. 05 Y1 ... 05 Y2 ... ...in a COPYbook which could be used as a target for a SQL FETCH(let's say generated by DB2's DCLGEN), we need a mechanism to define an other record like01 table. 03 X . 05 Y1 occurs 100 times ......
    about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

    Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

    If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

    New CICSPlex SM routing algorithm

    We are not able to manage our online workload in an efficient way by using the CICSPlex SM Sysplex Optimized Workload Routing. If we use QUEUE/LNQUEUE algorithm, performance objectives defined in WLM are not being taken into consideration for rout...
    about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Provide a way to identify source lines discarded by conditional compilation

    We have made extensive use of conditional compilation to provide a COBOL development framework. If the development framework is easy to use, the result is a compilation listing filled with lines of source code commented out by conditional compilat...
    over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration

    make program EYU9XSTR Threadsafe,

    We are trying to reduce Threadsafe TCB swapping; we are QR TCB constrained. In trace I notice that EYU9XSTR causes a TCB SWAP L8 to QR; see trace below, I notice an old RFE from Circa '18 to have this done; was not considered at that time; I'd lik...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    TranClass Queue Expiration Time

    Improve the Transaction Class queue to accept defining an expiration time for transactions queued waiting for 1st dispatch. This enhancement will provide de CICS to manage the queue only for transactions that still need to execute and it would rel...
    almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    Enabling suppression of null valued decimal numbers in JSON generate

    We have a use case where we sometimes need to return a decimal value of 0.00 in a JSON, and sometimes need to return without that value(suppressed). We do not believe that we currently are able to do that. We move low-values to a decimal variable,...
    over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Uncaptured wait time for CICS webservices

    We are seeing a high uncaptured wait time for webservice attach tasks.This time should be captured and recorded in the CICS SMF 110 Performance class record. An auxtrace has shown that the uncaptured time is spent suspended waiting for resource 'R...
    almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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