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Extension to CPSM event detection and routing - for VSAM RLS and SMSVSAM failures

For CICS transactions under CPSM WLM control there is a requirement for WLM to detect when a resource that the transaction is dependent upon becomes unavailable. In this instance, the customer is reliant on VSAM RLS files to complete the transacti...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Resource TSMODEL, atribute EXPRYINT with values less 1h (intervals in minutes or seconds).

Customer would like to be able to define intervals in minutes or seconds in the EXPRYINT attribute of TSMODEL resource.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Delivered

Provide mask function on RASGNDEF override

Customer requires a method within CPSM of defining an applications File definitionsin a BAS Resource group and then assign the group to several CICS systems with unique DSNAMEs depending on target system.Therefore, have only one RASGNDEF for the r...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Allow a logstream reconnect attempt after a DFHLG0772 RC8 RSN082D

Due to XES timeouts, the logstreams for forward recovery logs became disconnected. Rather than just reporting the problem with a DFHLG0772 message and a dump, an attempt to reconnect could dynamically resolve the problem. The DFHLG0772 message can...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Channel/Container : new API option to extend the life of the CONTAINER

Customer would like have the possibility to extend the life of a CONTAINER created by a program to all programs executed under the same task, even if some of them are called using DFHCOMMAREA
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Better way to handle DFHLG0772 in certain circumstances

An RLS workload had been running in a CICS/TS 3.2 region without any problems for some time and after some period of time the CICS issued the following error message:+DFHLG0772 CIC1AA03 An error has occurred during MVS logger operation IXGWRITE fo...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Enhancement to DFHWS2LS: add additional parameters to control URIMAP settings and wsdl/wsbind file permissions

When using the batch cataloged procedure DFHWS2LS to generate a high level data structure (wsdl) and a Web service binding file (wsbind), there is currently NO ability to provide some important URIMAP resource definition attributes. We need the ab...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Allow Message Longer Than 32K Through Non-CICS Interface (SHARE Requirement SSCICS10003)

We need an interface that allows non-CICS address spaces to pass more than 32K bytes of data at one time into CICS. BUSVAL : 1INVVAL : 2ENDVAL : 3GROVAL : 1SYSVAL : 2KEYWORDS : UGVOTES : +5=2 +4=3 +3=5 +2=1 Priority=3.5
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CEMT Logging

Customer would like to log any changes that are made to a running CICS System for Audit and Accountability purposes.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Ability to invoke MQ Adaptor functions from a non-terminal task.

Currently, the requirement to invoke the MQ adaptor functions (e.g. STARTCKTI, STOPCKTI, etc.) from a CICS program is that the CICS task must be attached to a terminal (or console, or sequential terminal). We want to be able to invoke these functi...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered