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    CICSPlex WLM should take care of amount of allocated storage in AOR

    CPSM does not route requests into a target region having SOS. But if a CICS is close get an SOS it may happen that still new transactions are routed into this CICS.CPSM should put the percentage amount of allocated storage into the WLM decision to...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    In XTDOUT exits I would like to have access to the array of segment address/length pairs of all segments for multi-segment TD messages on the first invocation of the exit.

    When the first segment of a multi-segment TD message arrived in my XTDOUT exit I can see in the dump that there's an array with pointers to each segment followed by the length of the segment. All segments appear to also be there even though it the...
    about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Improve Diagnostics for in IPCONN Auto-Install capability

    Background : We are in the process of evaluating and deploying the IPCONN Auto-install facility and have constructed a program in line with the published template albeit for z/OS Connect and not CTG. Issue : During the evaluation / verification we...
    2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1

    Tolerant Reading web service requesters

    Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
    almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

    With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

    We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

    Request that CICS added transaction tracking /origin data for web services routed by CICS RZ domain request streams processin

    The explanation is that a new point of origin is created in the AOR when a web service pipeline handler transaction is routed over an MRO connection. as shown in this link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=data-origin-characteristics...
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Tolerate unknown elements for SOAP web services

    One of our web service applications is getting a DFHPI1007 error calling a remote service from CICS (so CICS is the web service consumer). It turned out, that the server system added some optional elements to their web service response in their re...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

    As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between upda...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    SMF110 - Log DFHDS0102 Percentage Ratios to SMF; both QR/CPU ratio; Dispatch Interval ratio

    Log to SMF110; Ratios for: DFHDS0102 I 09/14/2025 07:04:40 CICSQCPR QR TCB CPU / dispatch ratio: nn.nn%. QR TCB dispatch / interval ratio: nn.nn% This is for consistancy rather than manually calculating. Performance consistancy with statistics rep...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

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