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Amend DELAY API to be aware if it is cancelled.

When a CICS DELAY is issued with a request ID, the issuing application has no idea whether it waited for the full duration specified on the DELAY or if it was woken up early due to another task CANCELing the request ID. Would it be possible for CI...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS should never loop endlessly when gathering statistics and writing them out to SMF

Sometimes, CICS statistics collection goes awry and loops endlessly. When this happens, CICS writes statistics to SMF for the same group of resources over and over in a never-ending loop. This causes CICS to become unusable and to have to be cance...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add support for 64-bit storage to EXEC CICS INQUIRE STORAGE

GETMAIN64 was added with CICS/TS 5.1, however the INQUIRE STORAGE command still only returns 4-byte address values, and has no option for HIGH DSA pools.This is a request to add a INQUIRY STORAGE64 command for high DSA pools, so developers can dia...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Angel support for more than one Liberty per CICS address space

Angel support for more than one Liberty per CICS address space.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Set lower limit for TRTABSZ SIT parm

The CICS Internal Trace Table TRTABSZ parameter has defaulted to 12M since version 5.3. Before that it was 4M in CICS 5.2. Yet we still have customers coming in with extremely small trace table sizes (64K, 128K, 256K, etc.) that would on the surfa...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS retry to connect TCPIP during startup automatically or as configured

After an IPL, TCP/IP and CICS are started. A CICS region fails to connect TCP/IP during this startup since TCP/IP is not completely initialized. This results in those resources unable to start.CICS should be able to handle this by restarting the c...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS Web Services should support Unicode (UTF-16)

When using CICS web services, the default translation code page is UTF-8 from localccsid. This customer has user data in a DB2 sub-system stored in UTF-16. To process this data using CICS web services, they must read the DB2 tables and translate f...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CICS JVMSERVER logs administration

CICS JVMSERVER support generates unix filesystem logs. CICS does not supply anything to administer these logs, which can potentially be big. The infocenter does not supply much help regarding best practices related to logs handling or the content ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFHDSDS4 ABEND S0C4 at offset X'3E06'

Service request 34316 004 000 was opened with support for the following abend in CICS.DFHDSDS4 ABEND S0C4 at offset X'3E06' occurred after DB2 abended and CICS tried to reconnect. The reconnect failed, and CICS had to be recycled
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

EYU9XLOP is called regardless of DYNAMIC(YES) specification

I would like transactions to invoke EYU9XLOP only if DYNAMIC(YES) is specified on a transaction when a region specifies either DSRTPGM=EYU9XLOP and/or DTRPGM=EYU9XLOP Right now, regardless of the DYNAMIC specification on the transaction, EYU9XLOP ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 12 Delivered

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