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Option to turn OFF - VSAM dynamic buffer addition in CICS regions

We are using CICS TS 5.3 on z/OS 2.2. We are getting the below messages when VSAM dynamic buffer addition happens in CICS region. IDA9990I VSAM DBA ADDED 179 DATA BUFFERS OF 24576 BYTES EACH TO SHRPOOL 1 BECAUSE THERE WERE INSUFFICIENT BUFFERS TO ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

DFHPI1009 diagnostic enhancements

Message DFHPI1009 could include additional detail to help identify details of the request. It would be helpful if the CICS transaction id was included in the message.Currently, in order to determine the transaction id we extract the SMF records fo...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Customize the interval for CHCK transaction

Hi, This is with respect to PMR 09778 122 000. We recently discovered that IBM has introduced authorization check facility via transaction CHCK (program DFHHCHK). For CICS TS 5.3 this has come along via PTF UI49544. Now this check is done every 30...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHPI0997 additional web service context needed

Additional context information in message DFHPI0997 would help to identify the cause of the problem. For example:==> DFHPI0997 03/01/2014 12:55:14 PRD5AOR1 EB21 EBPR01 The CICS pipeline manager has encountered an error: timeout occurred. The me...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Support of SHA-256 hashing algorithm by CICS TS SSL

CICS TS up to, and including, Version 5.1 supports only the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. Our company needs to increase the security level of the digital certificates it uses for SSL connections (i.e. longer RSA key length and SHA-256 instead of SHA-1)...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Invalid data returned by INQUIRE PROGRAM after SET PROGRAM COPY(PHASEIN)

After a SET PROGRAM COPY(PHASEIN) a subsequent INQUIRE PROGRAM command returns only the values of the first created entry in program directory. The valid data of a further available entry created by PHASEIN could not be determined at all.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Use policy to monitor specific transactions

In CICS TS5.1, the policy will be applied on either Application basis or Platform basis(depends on how it's deployed).But in this scenario, it cannot monitor specific transactions. Customer raise a requirement to use policy to monitor specific tra...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Add Support for &APPLID in the MONDATA field of a MQMonitor resource

It would be very useful when sharing MQMonitor resources among multiple CICS regions if the MQDATA field support the symbolic parameter &APPLID. This would allow the installation of the same resource definition of MQMonitor for a CKBR CICS MQ ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS SMF 110 Model information is static

We noticed today that the CEC Machine Type and Model information stored in the SMF 110 record is static as it was at startup time and doesn't change if the model number changes. I would have thought this information would be more dynamic and chang...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Move CICS applications and ACEEs to 64 bit storage

Summary:Customer is limited in about 500MB of EDSA and is deployment a new SOA architecture with application size around 2MB each which gives only 250 transactions for CICS regions. Need to expand that Detail:The real problem here is the huge numb...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

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