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Ensure that the address of the GWA is aligned on a Doubleword boundary in current CICS releases

During the testing of CICS TS V4 Software AG have discovered that the GWA address provided to the Adabas TRUE was not aligned on a Doubleword, but only on a Fullword. This meant that they could not reliably use a CDS instruction to serialize two c...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Make SPI command SET TASK threadsafe

CICS SPI command SET TASK made threadsafe.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide capability to share UEPTSTOK

A common UEPTSTOK is provided for all global file control user exits. If there are multiple GLUEs in the same CICS/TS system, there is no facility or published guidance for sharing UEPTSTOK.
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Syncpoint and FullAPI support for the Link to Liberty function

The Java program called by "Link to Liberty" function supports DPLSubset and can't issue the syncpoint API in CICS Liberty due to the limitation of DPLSubset. Therefore, all syncpoint commit or rollback API in that Java code does not work and retu...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Custom Feature deployment support

We have developed our own trusted context feature for liberty and now want to use it in every liberty instance in every cics region. At the moment it is not possible to just install the feature one time. Customizeing the WLP_USER_DIR is not bringi...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Too much information revealed about logon failues

there are messages written by CICS TS in relation to various types of logon events - eg DFHXS1205 these impart too much information about the security system (eg user doesn't exist, or user does exist but invalid password etc). Modern well designe...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

make CPSM dataspace utilization available to automation

The data space utilization information should be made available via the JOBLOG/SYSLOG or MSGUSER.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CPSM should alert on dataspace utilization

CPSM should produce alerts for high utilization of data spaces before the available space has been completely exhausted, and additional, unique message IDs for when the shortage has been relieved. For all of the data spaces that have pairs, like W...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow override of HPO SIT parm in PARM; add RACF/ESM facility resource to control use

Our shop maintains CICS regions for multiple business units, some of which utilize HPO=YES, and others which specify HPO=NO. Our intent to migrate toward use of a common base SIT (DFHSIT6$) is therefore thwarted by the non-overridability of the HP...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Cics Liberty local server.xml deployment

For a developper it is not possible to take a local server.xml or parts of it and be sure, that the same configuration is used in cics. We can now build something, to hack the created server.xml or to overwrite it, but this is not really nice. Wha...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

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