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Reset Statistics Partially

Currently it is only possible to reset the statistics (SMF) of all attributes (TRANSACTION, TRANCLASS, etc.) together. Granularity in statistics reset would be very useful for monitoring and metrics, and I understand that it is easily justifiable ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DFHFC7084 issued when CICS resyncs to CFDT

This REQ is being raised by CICS L3 Service who actually took an apar for this problem for further investigative work but eventually deemed it to be beyond the scope of an apar fix. Basically, CICS is interfacing with a CFDT Server and an inflight...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS START ATTACH more general

An EXEC CICS START ATTACH command can only be executed as a non-terminal-request. There is a need for a terminal oriented (single threaded) START command that is executed immediately. A START command with TERMINAL is only executed every 256 millis...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE PROGRAM() USECOUNT() We need to be able to make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS MQ Listener (CPIL) serialisation of In-Only messages

CICS MQ Listener enhancement to serialise (or otherwise throttle) processing of "in-only" requests. The CICS MQ Listener for web services (CPIL) currently schedules a new task immediately upon arrival of each message on a request queue. This is id...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance AFCI/AFCY to indicate holder of resource

Enhance the AFCI/AFCY transaction abends to indicate what task was holding the resource. This could be done by dumping (not abending) the holding task or at least producing a message showing what the holding task was.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Create CICS API to provide access to the Unix System Services Filesystem (HFS/ZFS)

Need ability to do standard file/directory functions to the USS HFS via an EXEC CICS API available to COBOL and HLASM.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Provide callable service to return text string of EXEC CICS command

The provision of a Callable service which would receive (at least) (i) the address and (ii) length of the Parameter list resulting from the translation of an EXEC CICS command (including the whole of ARG0, (iii) the address and (iv) the length of ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enhance EXEC CICS DELETE...GENERIC with a check option

A programmer must be able to find out how many records are eligible for deletion BEFORE the real deletion takes place. Perhaps a kind of EXEC CICS DELETE ... GENERIC NODATA/NORECS to receive in NUMREC the number of records eligible for deletion. T...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS RECEIVE/RECEIVE MAP API should have a "NOWAIT" option.

It would be most helpful if the CICS API were to support a "NOWAIT" option on all forms of EXEC CICS RECEIVE / RECEIVE MAP, such that if the API is invoked and terminal data are not immediately available, then the command would immediately complet...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration