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Cics Liberty Double Log Output

At the moment it is only possible to print the output of Liberty to JES or to ZFS. We have the situation, that the developers prefer the ZFS (Unix/in their world Linux) Output, but we want to archive the output into Beta Systems BETA 92 Tool. This...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

EXEC CICS VERIFY TOKEN does not support mutual authentication

EXEC CICS VERIFY TOKEN does not work with our client application
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Update WEB RECEIVE API to work directly with 64 bit container

The WEB RECEIVE API does not work directly with 64 bit containers.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

PSCHWAB1109-1294 CICS health status to Sysplex Distributor (WLM)

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: yogesh.parchure@schwab.comSubmitters Company: Charles Schwab PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PSCHWAB1109-1294 CICS health status to Sysplex Distributor (WLM)Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Technol...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Reduce task switching overhead for inbound web service requests

When web service message security is used to flow user credentials to CICS it results in two pipeline alias transactions. This maybe necessary in cases where authorization is required for the transport identity (e.g RACF user id mapped from client...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Can the CICS storage subpool TSICDATA in temp storage in ECDSA be moved to 64 bit storage?

When we get a lot of messages come in and do a lot of EXEC CICS START with data, the data goes to storage subpool TSICDATA. This is in ECDSA. The transaction in question is TCLASS'ed and the queue can really build up sometimes. We had a flood of m...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Adding timer wait value and retry loop counter in Named Counter EXEC interface

Named Counter EXEC interfaces need to be enhanced to allow cusotmer to control the timer wait and retry loop during CF system-managed rebuild process.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

CICS should be aware when a protected DB2 thread is canceled

Customer has an automated process to cancel CICS tasks that exceed 20 CPU seconds. To follow the procedures recommended in CICS manuals, first a DB2 CANCEL THREAD is issued and then the CICS transaction is purged. When the DB2 thread in use is def...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Removing Index table limitation for CICS Data tables

Though CICS allows us to use 99 data spaces but only 1 Index space in it. Which is limiting the number of Data tables we can use. The Index table is getting full before we use 6 Data spaces for loading Data records.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Optimize CICS/MQ Bridge error handling (enhanced ROUTEMEM)

The current ROUTEMEM=Y mechanism to protect against certain types of errors with messages processed by the MQ Bridge imposes the overhead of creating and deleting a shared TSQ for every message. Investigate optimizing this to only create the TSQ w...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered