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CPSM API Timeout/Retry if MAS cycling

CPSM API programs throw an error if a MAS is cycling since the state of the MAS is indeterminate and CPSM times out waiting for a response. The timeout error causes our API program to fail. We would like the CPSM API to be more tolerant of transit...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

make CPSM routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe

Please make the dynamic routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to change dynamically the interval that message DFHDS0102I is issued

In CICS TS 5.6, message DFHDS0102I was introduced to show the QR TCB CPU Dispatch Ratio. This message is issued, by default, every 5 minutes. To change the frequency of this message it is necessary to specify INITPARM=(DFHQRCPU='nn') as a system i...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Policy for Container (Channel) Size

We have a case where Client passes a Channel into CICS that is rather huge - 38,DB7,93Cx bytes. This drives the region short on storage on the GET CONTAINER, impacting other region workload. It would be beneficial to have a CICS Task Storage polic...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Functionality already exists

TCPIP Session identification

Problem: When a TCP/IP session is established with a CICS region there is nothing in any of the CICS logs to indicate that this has happened. There are messages generated when an error occurs during session establishment (such as DFHWB0732) but no...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Allow DFHJVM* logs to roll based on file size

We recently upgraded to CICS 6.1 and encountered an unexpected log message from a Liberty JVM. It wasn't frequent enough to trigger alarms in test, but did once it went to production, filling our logging partition. We attempted to delete the massi...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

zIIP Enable VSAM/RLS processing

Similar to DRDA work coming into DB2, request to see a percentage of the CPU used to process VSAM/RLS requests from CICS enabled for zIIP offload eligibility.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHLIST automatically defined and installed by CICS; not on LIST=

DFHLIST automatically defined and installed by CICS; not on LIST=. If were automatically defined by CICS; would free up one of the 4 LIST= slots. items in DFHLIST needed in order for CICS to start; why not define automatic as part of the CICS init...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Eliminate the key limitation for CF Data Tables

CICS limits the key length to 16bytes for CF Data Tables. This limits many of our files(read only kind) not eligible for CFDT. We like IBM to eliminate the key length limitation for the CFDT.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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