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Excessive spurious dumps in CICS

CICS produces an AP0001 dump for exceptions that Language Environment allows a retry operation. These exceptions are treated as non-errors in LE yet they are recorded in CICS and dumps are produced. Excesive abend processingin CICS and dump will c...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable specification of proxy for outbound TCP/IP connections (GSE requirement GGCIC10003)

For outbound TCP/IP connections, i.e. web services or http-connections in most companies a firewall/proxy restricts access to external services. To specify a firewall/proxy in the current implementation an XWBOPEN-exit is needed. Solution does not...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHIR3785 CSNC abended

With current design, when message DFHIR3785 is issued, CSNC is abnormally terminated with a system dump. All tasks using MRO links to other systems are abnormally terminated. CICS also abends all tasks in other CICS regions that are currently comm...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CFDT 16 bytes key limitation

The Coupling Facility Data Tables suffer the 16 byte key limitation for Coupling Facility architecture reason. That makes this facility of a poor interest at many sites for legacy applications, the VSAM key being usually larger than 16 bytes. To c...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Specify Mirror transid when MQ Bridge DPLs

The customer would like the option to code TRANSID parameter within MQCIH to cause CICS to attach the mirror transaction under a different transaction id other than CSMI
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

New EXEC CICS COMMAND to verify USERID (GSE Requirement GGCIC07003)

We are working with USERIDs without passwords (e. g. if the user is coming into the CICS via a security server using the CWS). The existing CICS - API "E.C. VERIFY PASSWORD" is not a good way to verify the validation of a USERID because with every...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Update CICSPlex SM CODB Debugger to dump and alter 64 bit above the bar storage

More and more CICS TS and CICSPLex SM structures are being relocated or allocated in above-the-bar 64 bit storage. The CICSPlex SM Debugging transaction CODB needs to be enhanced to support display, dump and modify 64 bit storage areas for IBM ser...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Prevent CICS from termination after a CEDA install CONNECTION fails because the CICS Global Catalogue (DFHGCD) is full.

A user using the CEDA transaction to install a CONNECTION /SESSION or TERMINAL definition can crash a CICS production region if the DFHGCD is full CICS and cannot extend.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions.

there is always a dependency if service applied for CPSM to restart the maintenance point at first. In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions and their depending MAS regions.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Switch off CMF for a specified Transaction

CEB has a web support application, a single request will lead to multiple transaction been invoked,eg CWXN, CWBA, as well as some mirror task, this will bring a huge cost to print the CMF data, so they wonder if there is a way to switch off the CM...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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