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Reduce and/or eliminate CICS statistics with zero use count

Can there be a toggle to suppress cutting statistics records if there is no activity? Deciding which to suppress could be different for different records and different customers, so I'm asking for something that I'm not sure there is a good (easy)...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow CICS to share SSL Keyrings even if they run under different userIDs

Hi, Currently a CICS region can only use the SSL keyring that is owned by the region owner ID. We can't share same keyring between multiple regions if they run under different owner IDs. With the increase in number of CICS regions, its becoming ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Prevent DFHSI1517 Control is given to CICS message until after the Java Applications are actually ready for work

Given the problem described in RFE 108941, we additionally need CICS startup to prevent the "Control is Given to CICS" message until after all the Java Bundle Installation processing has completed (successfully or not). WLM Health is an insufficie...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Enhance EXPIRY processing TS-queues performance

You can use a TSMODEL to set an EXPIRY on a TS-queue.If you install such a TSMODEL in CICS, then CICS will initiate a SCAN process, that will scan main/auxilary and CF-TS-Pools for queues that has expired.This scan process will run in all cics reg...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered

Original Client Certificate Userid in CICS Monitoring Record

When a HTTP request, running in CICS Liberty, is authenticated by a client certificate the CICS monitoring record does not contain the correct userid. That does not affect runtime operation of the user task, but the task will be associated with th...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

User set in CICS Liberty TAI should be accounted in SMF

CICS Liberty Profile uses the user set in the authorization header for SMF accounting.While the transaction is running we can find in Omegamon for CICS the user which was set by methode"TAIResult.create(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK, personalizedUser)...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Monitoring Webservices INVOKED by CICS transaction

we need to be able to see in realtime and by monitoring tools the webservices and pipelines invoked by cics transactions. The CICS webservice acts like a requester. We hope to be able to see all the informations that can be seen if the webservice ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Add to SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the region grouplists used at startup

Add to the SPI INQUIRE SYSTEM the option to display/query the region grouplists used at startup. Right now if you need to query this you need to review the job output and if you want to query this programmatically you need to chase down the inform...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

When trying to configure the WUI CMCI JVM in our recently upgraded CTS 6.1 sandpit WUI, a problem was identified to do with the configuration of the keystore which uses crypto hardware. Each time the WUI restarted it would change safkeyringhw to s...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered