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CICS API to support async call

CICS provides API to support async call, and the mechanism to check the result of transaction which is started by the async call.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Throttle for CSOL if CICS is not responding

We had a couple of sev 1 issues recently after an overall system lockup froze everything for a few minutes. Because of the high volume of HTTP messages we process, all of our high volume TOR (WOR) regions went SOS immediately after the systems fre...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Access to URIMAP ID in converter program

When developing software that uses CICS Web Support, I needed access the URIMAP ID in the converter, and later on in the application program, for the URIMAP that fired the web request. The analyzer does have that information but it is not passed t...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Access to an existing CICS document from a java program using JCICS

I want to be able to pass a CICS DOCUMENT, created in a COBOL program, to a java program by its document token and have the java program work with that existing document with the JCICS api. However, I have not been able to find a way to use an exi...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

support timeout base on elapsed time of task

User wants to specify a timeout for tasks, when the elapsed time of that task is more than the value, cancel that task.<br /><br />User can accept the cancel fail or take effect after a whole. they want CICS detect the elapsed time and...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

HTTP idle session as a changeable value

Once an HTTP session is established on CICS Web Support, CICS waits 30 seconds for the HTTP client to send data. It would be very useful to be able to set that wait time to a different value, by issuing a CICS startup parameter for instance.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

EXEC CICS ASSIGN INPUTLENGTH()

Need to be able to get the length of terminal input string before receiving input: EXEC CICS ASSIGN INPUTLENGTH()
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

System actions for CICS EP system event

Customer have great interest on system event support to monitor their CICS system and want to use EP support to do some system actions such as 'take a system dump', 'write CICS log', 'issue CICS system command', etc. Currently, there is no such su...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Support more than one programs with same name load from different library in one CICS region

In CICS, user can define programs with same name in different resource group. but after install, there is only one program load from one library. Customer wants CICS support programs with same name can load from different library and coexist in CICS
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

We would like to find a way to collect statistics for LU6.2 connection (onlline way)

We would like to find a way to collect statistics for LU6.2connection (online way). In Performance Guide about CICS/TS V4.2.0 SC34-7177-02 pag. 553 seems that ISC informations for appc connection can be colleced only from SMF110.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered