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Application access to 64bit storage using Getmain .. Shared.

Customer requests the ability for application access to 64bit storage for Hogan banking applications. The specific need is to support a "direct getmain of 64 bit application shared storage, so that they can issue a getmain and save the address som...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CEDF activity causes short on storage in CDSA below the 16M line.

DFHSM0131 Short on storage below the line occurs due to a large number of CEDF transactions. Background: Each time a CEDF transaction is run and terminated, either correctly using PF3 or just by closing the session, the next time the CEDF transact...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CEMT Audit Trail

This is another case of a customer wanting CEMT audit trail capabilitiy, like CEDA already has. The following text is copied from existing requirement:..In order to provide complete accountability for system changes, it is desirable for CEMT to wr...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Update IBM provided RDO PPT for DFHPGADX to specify "threadsafe"

Please update the IBM RDO supplied PPT entry for DFHPGADX to specify "threadsafe" rather than "Quasirent".
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Add field(s) in SMF 110 monitoring records for CPU consumed by transaction on speciality processor(s) - zIIP and zAAP

The customer uses the SMF monitoring records for accounting and billing purposes. The lines of business are charged based on CPU time used per transaction. Within CICS, certain transactions - namely those using Java - are able to exploit the zAAP ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support TDQ API Threadsafe

Customer uses lots of TDQ READ/WRITE API in their key access layer application in CICS,they hope CICS can support threadsafe on TDQ access to reduce CPU consumption as soon as possible.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFH0STAT could include totals in the Data Tables storage report.

DFH0STAT currently does not total the storage allocation and in-use for all the Data Tableslisted in the report. Customers would find that very helpful in monitoring their Data Table storage usage.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

IPIC connection - Granularity in keep alive function

In a IPIC connection, customer require a keep alive function with a better granularity (in seconds) than that provided by the existing SO_Keepalive socket option which uses the stack-wide time value (two hours in customer environment). So for any ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CMF Buckets for zAAP CPU Time (SHARE requirement SSCICS09013)

CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF) should include a separate bucket for collecting zAAP processor time. Right now we have no way to directly measure the amount of time a transaction spends on a specialty engine. There are a couple of indirect ways to ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS has to provide status information if Lost Locks recovery is taking place

A customer has deactivated a production LPAR because of an error. All the affected CICS regions were restarted on another machine. The AORs did perform lost lock recovery (VSAM RLS) and were operable again after about 1 hour 50minutes. There was a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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