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CICS Dynamic Caching

The RFE is for the ability to support dynamic caching in CICS. This was recently discussed at the UK CICS User Group in Manchester and a paper is attached outlining some of the requirements, use cases and outlines how the solution may appear from ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION Threadsafe,

We are trying to cut back on TCB Swaps; I notice INQUIRE DFHTRANSACTION to do TCB swap; was wondering if this could be made THREADSAFE? There is a trace entry of TRANSFORMER; not sure what that is.... See trace snippit: L80AT RM 0302 RMLN EXIT SET...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

make INQUIRE REQID Threadsafe

We are interested in making INQ REQID Threadsafe. We are trying to cut back on some TCB swaps; I noticed this in the trace; TCB Swap upon entry exit of INQ REQID; Entry L8; Exit QR; then remains on QR for some time, until next DB2 or MQ request. 9...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow limited scope surrogate permissions for CICS

Allow for a surrogate permission, such as *.DFHSTART with access of READ, to be limited in scope to a CICS transaction, program, or both. Such granularity in allowing a surrogate permission is not available today.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CSNC restrict IRC Connect Retry count to 50

CICS/TS MRO current design has no limit to the number of IRC retry CONNECT requests issued by transaction CSNC. This has led to High CPU consumption by hundreds of CICS Regions trying to connect to a stalled CICS Region. It does not seem logical t...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHBRNSF data set counter

Customer feels CICS should automatically reset the counter and not require customers to take an outage of their region(s) because of message DFHBR0509 being issued, when the DFHBRNSF dataset counter is nearing its limit.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS - ICSF callable Interface to use transaction owner's userid instead of CICS region userid

We need urgently an interface to propagate the transaction user as the checked userid in CSFSERV and CSFKEYS classes .In our environment RACF access control is used for RACF classes CSFSERV and CSFKEYS for permitting technical userids to associate...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Using CICS DFHWBPW for normal password change

Our idea is to use CICS password change program DFHWBWB, which is normaly triggered when the passwort expires, also for the normal password change process.We tried it and it works in principle, when using any URL like http://serverurl/DFHWBPW. Wha...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS GLUE XFCFROUT should pass the UEP_FC_SYSID from REMOTESYSTEM file control definition if SYSID not specified

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS users collecting dependency data need to determine if EXEC CICS file control requests are function shipped to a remote system. If the EXEC CICS file control command specifies the SYSID(xxxx) parameter, the CI...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

There is a need for a new GLUE point in the DISABLE LIBRARY processing

When a user issues a DISABLE LIBRARY command to CICS (either directly, or indirectly via a DISABLE BUNDLE) then one of CICS' obligations is to de-allocate the library. While Xpediter maintains an open handle against the DCB there is no possible wa...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

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