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Need to be able to set lower value ( less then 200 ) for AKPFREQ

Customer wants to lower the logger dataspace size by setting low AKPFREQ value. With low AKPFREQ, the log tail deletion will take place more frequent and can reduce the DASDONLY logger dataspace usage.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Raise maxtasks (MXT) SIT parm to something bigger than 999 for greater throughput

Customer is constantly running with maximum max tasks defined and would like the ability to raise the current limit to allow for grater throughput.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Cancelling transactions after reaching a specified time without being in distress or looping.

To be able to have a transaction cancelled when it reaches a time threshold no matter what it is doing in the CICS region.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICSPlex SM WUI. Request to add multiple CICS systems to a selected system group.

On the view "System group definitions", customer would like to be able to add multiple CICS systems to the selected system group. Customer suggested to include a new button "Add CICS system" in order to attend this request. The related screen is a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Make path to XTDEREQ threadsafe for the case when TD request will be bypassed

Ahead of TD being made threadsafe, would it be possible to remain on the open TCB until after XTDEREQ  and then switch to QR if the request is not going to be bypassed.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide the ability to define a timeout value (in seconds) for a task.

Customer would like to be able to define a timeout value in CPU seconds for a task. On expiry of this timeout CICS gives customer several optional actions, such as issue a warning message, purge , force purge or kill the task.This could be impleme...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Limit task CPU usage in CICS (SHARE requirement SSCICS0518586)

DESCRIPT : Develop a capability within the CICS product to specify the maximum cumulative CPU which may be used by a single CICS task. The new function should provide a capability to specify a region default maximum time value for CPU beyond which...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS TS SMTP Support Request

Modification for transactions to make EXEC CICS WEB calls maybe specifying a scheme of SMTP, an address (recipient) and a payload of the message, with the SMTP server being an exit as per XWBOPEN for HTTP.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add Console Journaling for CICS Transactions

The customer was trying to journal the usage of a few CICS Transactions started at the console. One of these is CEMT. They have created a Profile that specifies journaling for input only. The can see that some of the tasks have used CEMT, but they...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Tolerate spaces in SSL certificate name

When using SSL security in CICS, unless you have a default certificate on the KEYRING a certificate must be specified. There is no error at define time if the certificate name contains spaces, but when attempting to install the TCPIP Service CICS ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered