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CICS OSCORE SMF record

State Street Corporation is interested in an additional statistic; that of the largest available low Dynamic Storage Area. We, and other CICS shops, are still running legacy CICS programs that consume a significant amount of DSA. This factor requi...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enhance AUXTRSW SIT Parm to off ALL option (like AUXTRSW)

The Dump Dataset Switch SIT Parm currently only offers NO and NEXT as options for no switching or a single switch of the datasets. No further switches will occur without a subsequent CEMT/EXEC CICS SET DUMPDS SWITCH (such as via automation or syst...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CIPHERs for OutBound Web Services

Where CICS is acting as a web service provider (i.e. InBound CICS Web Services) we can specify a range of ciphers in a TCPIPSERVICE definition which gives us some flexibility over the range of ciphers that we will support. However, the same flexib...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Run transaction COWC under a CICS system userid instead of the userid of an application transaction.

The COWC transaction (WLM MAS List Garbage Collector)is being started by some CPSM MAS Agent code under the control of a business transaction. As such, CICS is attempting to attach it with the userid of the business transaction and encounters a se...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

allocate commarea above the line when XCTL

Customer had SOS in below the 16M storage.The storage allocated below the line were commarea. Many transactions were waiting for file for a long time because of slow DASD response and transactions were building up. Most of transactions executed XC...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

inactive TSQ deletion interval less than one hour

Ability to define the inactive TSQ deletion interval on the TSM resource less than one hour
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Modify EXEC CICS INQUIRE FEATURETOGGLE to show the source of the toggle

Update the INQUIRE FEATURETOGGLE to provide information on where the toggle value was specified. It should also indicate default values. Perhaps something like PATH(xxxxxx).
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Logmessages if maxtask or classmaxtask was reached (GSE Requirement GGCIC07005)

DFH - messages if the MAXTASK or CLASSMAXTASK condition(s) was reached. BUSVAL : 5INVVAL : 5ENDVAL : 5GROVAL : 5SYSVAL : 5KEYWORDS : UGVOTES : +5=5 +4=3 +3=3 +2=6 +1=3 0=1 -1=2 -3=2 -5=1 Abstain=1 Priority=
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Support Symbolics in CICS File Definition DSNAME

Allow the use of symbolics (similar to JCL symbolics) in the DSNAME of aCICS File Definition (or BDAM FCT entry), to be resolved either at installtime or open time according to installation-supplied substitution strings.Should also include a speci...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Create a CEMT SET() PHASEIN type command for JAVA bundles.

The versioning and alias processing options that are presently available for deploying new JAVA bundles in CICS require changes to the pre-existing CICS RDO definitions, this is not something that is desired when promoting a new version of a JAVA ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

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