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Userid of Long Running CPSM Transactions

Currently, when CPSM connection needs to be restarted via the COLM transaction the associated long running tasks are now executed under the user id of the user that issued the COLM rather than the CICS region id. The customer would like to have th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Extend EXEC CICS API to provide 'Link Level' number

Extend the EXEC CICS application programming API to provide upon request the number of Levels down a program is. The PG_PTA control block contains the value for Application program LINKs and for System Levels, but is not easily accessible.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS Monitoring Enhancement for Shared TS Request Counts

We need CICS to be able to provide monitoring information on shared TS queue requests, particularly the PUT and GET request counts one task has requested against a shared TS pool.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Reduce minimum delay for interval control wait.

Reduce minimum delay for EXEC CICS DELAY from 1 second to smaller intervals (hundredths of a second).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Issue a warning message when total number of DB2 threads is greater than the TCBLIMIT on the DB2CONN definition.

CICS should issue a warning message when total number of DB2 threads ( sum of THREADLIMIT values on DB2ENTRYs and DB2CONN ) is greater than the TCBLIMIT on the DB2CON definition. We would like to put in an enhancement/design change such that if th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Additional Short On Storage message needed

CICS currently puts out messages when it goes into an SOS condition and another set of messages when it is able to clear it:DFHSM0131 CICS is under stress (short on storage below 16MB).DFHSM0132 CICS is no longer short on storage below 16MB.DFHSM0...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CICS Install job DFHCOMDS should allocate DFHCSD with secondary extents

The CICS installation process only allocates a primary space for the DFHCSD in the DFHCOMDS job which creates the DFHCSD dataset. Looking back it seems this has been the case for some time. I looked at the 5.3 DFHCOMDS job, and can see it still do...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

DFHFC0432 in KC indicates that XMEOUT not invoked; no XMEOUT parameters

DFHFC0432 in KC indicates that XMEOUT not invoked - There are no XMEOUT Parameters. There seems to be some inconsistent KC references to "MESSAGE INSERTS" vs. "XMEOUT PARAMETERS".
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Support multiple WSBind directories on WSDIR PIPELINE definition (SHARE requirement SSCICS11011)

Each CICS Web Service consists of a CICS program along with a WSBIND file describing among other things the inputs and outputs for the service (program). This is similar to a BMS maps relationship to a program. The WSBind files are stored in an HF...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Describe the usage of JPA in CICS

To be able to use JPA (e.g. OpenJPA) in CICS, the CICS lab should describe how to integrate OpenJPA in a CICS JVM Server (see e.g. what WebSphere has done for Hibernate/Spring in the following article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/t...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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