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Ability to limit access to systems resources when using the CPSM API

Following PMR 72808,003,756 we have encountered a bottleneck caused by CONL processing an EXEC CPSM request from an application. When using CPSM API, the resources are accessed by the CONL transaction. Even with CONA configuration, after 5 CONA tr...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CONL CPU usage should be charged on the originating transaction.

Following PMR 72808,003,756 we have encountered a bottleneck caused by CONL processing an EXEC CPSM request from an application. We want CPSM activity to be similar to MQ and DB2 - allowing us to both monitor the cpu usage of the transaction and l...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty Profile Security without entry in web.xml

At the moment you need to define in each projects web.xml if you want a security or not. In a Cics where you have a general security in a 3270, or on other interfaces, this is not realy nice, because if a programmer forgets the entry in a web.xml ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Internal Trace should not be allowed to be disabled

Opening this RFC on behalf of the customer in PMR 67263,122,000. They experienced a 2-byte Storage Violation in a TIOA. They run with internal trace turned off, so no history of the storage was visible in the trace table. They were asked to turn a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow for predefined Event Adapter/Adapterset restrictions in CICS region

The ability to force the use of specific Adapters/Adaptersets should be an option to CICS (perhaps through a SIT option or ESM call). This would allow organizations with specific requirements for the controls on Adapters to prebuild approved ones ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically install CICS SVCs and LPA and Linklist modules to an LPAR with CICS running

With CICS TS 5.1 it is possible to dynamically install the CICS SVC i.e. no IPL is required to install the 5.1 SVC. However, this can only be achieved by shutting down any CICS regions running on the LPAR, installing the SVC, LPA and LINKLIST modu...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ask for CICS file OPEN in Read Update/Write/Del statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when a file is open under CICS in Read/Write CICS open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We woul...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

VSAM RLS files should have a quiescestate of UNQUIESCING

When unquiescing a VSAM/RLS file, we would like an interim state of "UNQUIESCING" that indicates that the unquiesce has been issued but has not yet completed. When used with the SET DSNAME NOWAIT option, the quiescestate returned could erroneously...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Control the number of DFHAP1900 messages

With the CTS 5.1 we have a valuable feature: Log of SPI - activities. But a central application must work with ... taname FEPI SET NODE(AZP050) USERDATA(KN03) RESP... ... the FEPI SET command. With round about 600.000 messages per CICS and day we ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Is a defect

Improve Storage Violation detection

Current CICS storage violation detection is inadequate.Check-zones (even with CSFE CHKSTSK), TRANISO, STGPROT, and SSRANGE only protect some storage.Often, they do not protect against:- An application using storage that it has FREEMAINed- An appli...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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