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Ability to turn on Internal Trace when Region Hung

Ability to turn on CICS internal trace when there is a tight looping transaction, that eventually gets abended with AKEC. This would give more information that exception trace entry *EXC*. This would be like CEKL, that would allow trace turned on ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Cics Maven Plugin

I want a maven plugin witch gives my the same possibility like the liberty-maven-plugin for a hole cics region. Target for this all is a zospt image, so that i can configure a hole cics region based on a maven project.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow Association data to pass named areas to allow multiple applications to use association data.

This is a repeat of the earlier RFE 67116. The request is to allow a named area of storage, potentially like a container or an area associated with a program or exit, to flow along with the task association data. The data should be able to be set ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Make upper/lowercase conversion possible in YAML override file.

We are using substrings of symbols (e.g. CICS_APPLID) in our resource overrides. Example (APPLID=XCICO): - urimap: - selector: name: GERARD overrides: path: "/test-{{CICS_APPLID[0::1]}}/of/gerard" This resolves in: /test-X/of/gerard However, most ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhance the CICS design to access SMSVSAM in parallel.

We'd like to propose the following CICS design changes:1) Have a completely separate TCB or a pool of TCBs to process only the QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE SEND and RECEIVE elements. This TCB or pool of TCBs should never be used for OPEN and CLOSE reques...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for function shipping over MRO

We are looking to use threadsafe to improve the throughput in our CICS regions. We keep coming to the need to have function shipping threadsafe using MRO (XM/XCF). We have tested using IPCONN, as recommended, and find that the resource usage is un...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

a new command if you have a address that is returned from a exec cics getmain it will be nice to able to ask CICS the size of the getmained area

if you are using getmain shared from one program and you get the address passed to a another program it will be nice if there was a command where you can ask cics storage manager how long the getmained area is from program number 2. cics do know i...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS to provide an application setting that indicates the success level of a transaction

Business analytics requires knowing more about a transaction than just the CPU and elapsed time. The only current indicator of success is the abend code, which is too coarse an indicator. Did the transaction complete successfully? To what degree? ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Verify the Startup of a CKTI Message

It would be nice that there was a Message displayed at CICS Initialization ,using MQONN, indicating the CKTI transaction/s successfully connected or failed to MQ at CICS Initialization time.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Docker Container in Cics

After the last CAF I have thaught a while about running multiple images/Platforms in a Cics Region. Now I think the only good solution for this, also what would bring multiple value to cics would be, to be able to run docker images in cics. And wi...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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