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Threadsafe START and CANCEL commands

START and CANCEL commands are not threadsafe, and if run under OTE, would result in TCB switching to take place whenever these commands are encountered. These switches adversely effect the performance of the application.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM: Perioddef should include selection of weekdays

When defining a CPSM perioddef for RTA- or WLM-def. in WUI or in Batch, it would be very helpful, to have the possibility of selecting not only the time from/to but also the days from monday to sunday. Especially on saturday and sunday we don't wa...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CPSM API: A new query function to identify available CMAS's

The CPSM API should support a new query function that could be called prior to any CONNECT operation. This query would scan and locate all active ESSS's on the local LPAR via the z/OS subsystem chain, extracting from each ESSS information about al...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

API for accessing CFDT's from non-CICS workloads.

Please provide an API to allow non-CICS workloads to access Coupling Facility Data Tables (CFDT).
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Stop doing pointless updates to DFHRSTAT in cpsm non-target cics regions

CPSM code should check to see if a cics region is defined as a wlm target region. If it is NOT a wlm Target region, cpsm should override (to 0) any coded, or default, UPDATE RS parm value to avoid updating DFHRSTAT with info that will never be uti...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

flood controls for policy rules and events

Provide a user customizable mechanism to control floods of triggered policy rules and events.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty shared library bundle support

To speed up starting times of the liberty server in cics it we have to host the included jar files in liberty applications only one time per server -> move them to shared liberty librarys. For this we need a function to deploy a cics bundle wit...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CPU time logged if trx is purged while on L8 TCB

To day the cputime is not logged to CMF if a transaction is purged while on L8 TCB.According to IBM this is working as designed.Many applications are now running Threadsafe , so the risk of loosing cputime is great
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

trap AKCC with EXEC CICS RECEIVE

Trap an abend AKCC during an EXEC CICS RECEIVE
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Limit the size of AIDs chain for Transid

This is a evolution of RFE 98067, in which the customer asked to be able to set a limitation for new starts of transactions when the number of AIDs in a CICS region reached to this limit. Today, however, the customer has "evolved" this issue furth...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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