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SA-internal command HSAET32 should generate a meaningful error message in the event of a problem.

If an SA/NetView is restarted, all HSAET32 are rebuilt and this is logged with ON in netlog. Sometimes this doesn't work and the checker returns a "HSAET32 status ended, RC=1007". so what's the problem? In our case we have some trouble with the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Support External JWTs in CICS

Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SOAP Web Services

One of the 'issues' with CICS WS SOAP based services is that XSD validation needs to switched off in live Prodn operation due to the overheads involved. Could though the use of OSR's (Optimised Schema Defns) help here and provide a route by which ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Enable turning USER EXITs on and off through CPSM, CICS Explorer, etc.

Currently this can only be done through the CICS SPI. However, it's not hard to create an exit that locks everyone out of the native CICS black screen (in our case, this was the desired outcome, except for system users), and (as a side effect) pre...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Consistent SMF 110 Record generation for Long Running Transactions

In our shop, we have long running transactions (LRT) that are primarily or entirely threadsafe. We have MNFREQ set to 1 minute and don't get consistent SMF 110 record generation for the LRTs. This may be because the LRT was not on the QR TCB when ...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

TESTing INGAMS refresh processing

It would be really helpful to have a way to TEST the INGAMS REFRESH processing without actually performing the policy refresh, after a policy build has been completed. It will help prevent surprises during change window when we perform the actual ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Enable the Surrogate check for INTRDR with XUSER=NO

Hi Team, Currently we use XUSER=NO, and we are looking forward to activate surrogate check only to INTRDR. Keeping XUSER=NO and activating the below toggles doesn't help the surrogate check for the jobs running through INTRDR.com.ibm.cics.spool.su...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Planned for future release

Disable SA system shutdown automation

When a system is closed, SA automation jumps in on autotask AUTSHUT. This uses PHASE1,2 and 3 customisation, but doesn't allow the functionality to be turned off. We have our own system shutdown processing, and had and shutdown issue, then found t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted