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CICS DUMP with ABCODE of x'40' or x'00'

We have a bunch of applications that don't code their EXEC CICS ABEND ABCODE(WS-CODE) correctly; they are initializing the ABCODE field with spaces or not initializing at all. I was interested in changing the abend code from x'00' or x'40' to some...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Report CICS JVMServer GC CPU usage

FI  would like CICS to report the CPU cost of Garbage Collection in addition to the elapsed time.This could be added to the JVM server statistics if this is made available for the JVM as an MXBean field.Migrated from FITS MR0704115122
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Move CONL to OPENAPI threads

Please consider moving transaction CONL and its alternates to an OPENAPI thread so that their processing does not impact normal CICS work. In general, we would like to see more CICS functions running threadsafe.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

Convert the EYU9XSTR Exit to be Threadsafe
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

WOLA BBOC CSD Ressource

Using the WOLA interface is quite difficult and does not allow the use of dynamic changes in a running system. e.g. One is forced to use BBOC STOP_SRVR and then the corresponding BBOC START_SRVR (with all parameters). This has quite a few disadvan...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

WUI "Active tasks" view. The previous selected data remain on the screen after a invalid selection.

On the view "Active tasks", after a previous selection, customer has informed an invalid value, e.g., in the field "Taskid". CPSM / WUI issued a error message informing the value is not valid, but the previous presented data still remain in the sc...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect

CICSPlex SM CMAS and WUI should invoke STAT transaction for statistics

Need ability to both automatically configure CICS statistics collection in a CMAS/WUI server as well as adhoc statistics collection. Add an action to the CMAS resource table for adhoc, API or CMCI requests from Explorer to have the CMAS or WUI run...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CMDPROT for calls to External Resource Managers such as MQ and DB2.

Even with Storage Protection active in CICS, it is possible for a USERKEY application program to cause CICSKEY storage to be overlayed. This can happen if the USERKEY program specifies the address of CICSKEY storage as one of the output parameters...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for CFDT and shared TS access

SIA asks to add to CICS TS V5.4 the following feature, already present in CIS TS V5.5 "Access to coupling facility data tables in CICS TS V5.5 is now threadsafe Access to coupling facility data tables (CFDTs) is now threadsafe, so CFDTs can be acc...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Returning non-zero reason code when attributes on a EXEC CICS WRITEQ TS are overridden by a TSMODEL

Modify the RESP2 value for a successful WRITEQ TS to indicate whether the attributes specified on the request do not match the resulting queue. The NORMAL value for RESP would not be altered.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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