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CICS needs to atomically update URIMAP / WEBSERVICE and PROGRAM in one atomic operation

When a existing Web Service provider running in CICS is updated, you need to update two parts which correlate very closely: 1. The wsbind-File (and thereby the respective URIMAP and WEBSERVICE) 2. The program that is called whenever (the CICS PROG...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Timeout for long-time run transaction in CICS

Customer wants the transaction to be purged from CICS when its run time has reach a time-out value. Most of CICS transaction in customer environment has a response time less than 0.03 seconds, some of them may stay in CICS to cosume CPU or other r...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

SIT AUTORESETTIME parameter to include IMMEDIATE option

Provide SIT AUTORESETTIME=IMMEDIATE that would issue an internal CICS RESETTIME with any variation in UTC offset from present compared to CICS initialisation (not only for offset variations greater than 30 mins) .
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enhance Task management resilency

Denial-of-service attacks can consume CICS resources starving legitimate CICS workload and resulting in maxtask and SOS conditions in the CICS regions. Severe Dos attacks can even result in CICS region termination. This marketing requirement is re...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Long running tasks using Channels and Containers

Lots of storage usage when a single long running task does many PUT CONTAINER commands. If you have a long running task doing many PUT CONTAINER commands, this could lead to a short on storage. The task does a PUT CONTAINER to a unique channel nam...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Multithread the SAF (RACF) interface instead of single threading under the RO TCB

Customer is using a "secure Id cards" security server (ACEE server from RSA) system in order to generate temporary passwords. In order to reduce the exposure to attacks, the minimum response time of the ACEE server is set to 2 seconds and cannot b...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Complete DFHDU0203I message with important informations (GSE requirement GGCIC09003)

DFHDU0203I message contains the following information's (sample : 02/07/2009 08:15:25 CICSP00 ... dumpcode: 4039, Dumpid: 1/0001 Additionally necessary are... ... TASK=0230,CODE=4039 TIME=08:15:24,PGM=CI0230F ... ... task name and abending program
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

API to display details of current instances of CKTI

There needs to be an API to allow a program to find out how many instances of CKTI are currently active and what initiation queue each CKTI is servicing. This information is currently available via the CKQC Display CKTI panel ( CKQCM4 ). But there...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide PING for TCP/IP connections

In an SNA LU6.2 environment the status "aquired" shows that a connection is established and ready for use. Since we have moved to a TCP/IP based network we can check with TCPIPSERVICE that a connection is "open" but this does not assure that the c...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Provide INQUIRE SYSTEM SMFID and INQUIRE SYSTEM MVSSYSID (GSE Requirement GGCIC07014)

There is no EXEC CICS command to inquire neither the MVS SMFID (CVT field SMCASID) nor the MVS SYSID (CVT field CVTSNAME). This information is vital in messages written to the CICS log and captured by our automation.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered