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Enhance CICS policy to capture all CICS abend task

Currently, CICS policy system rule (rule type = Transaction abend) can only capture UNHANDLED abend task. If application program has EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND logic to handle abend, the abend will not be treated as an abnormal end of a task and will ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Limit the amount for outgoing parallel connections via URIMAP

For each implementation of connection pooling in other systems, also in the distributed world, you are capable to limit the amount of parallel connections. This is something we would like to use for the connection pool of an URIMAP. The requiremen...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add Originating Program field to CMF

Add the Originating Program (OPROG) to CMF data, similar to Originating Transaction (OTRAN), Originating ApplID (OAPPLID), etc.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

add INQUIRE SOAPFAULT to SPI

If a web services is invoking which throws a soap fault, the aoplication has to deal with the XML. It might be much easier, if the application will get the notification that there is a soap fault and gets the data with INQUIRE SOAPFAULT
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

CPSM API Timeout/Retry if MAS cycling

CPSM API programs throw an error if a MAS is cycling since the state of the MAS is indeterminate and CPSM times out waiting for a response. The timeout error causes our API program to fail. We would like the CPSM API to be more tolerant of transit...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

make CPSM routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe

Please make the dynamic routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to change dynamically the interval that message DFHDS0102I is issued

In CICS TS 5.6, message DFHDS0102I was introduced to show the QR TCB CPU Dispatch Ratio. This message is issued, by default, every 5 minutes. To change the frequency of this message it is necessary to specify INITPARM=(DFHQRCPU='nn') as a system i...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow DFHJVM* logs to roll based on file size

We recently upgraded to CICS 6.1 and encountered an unexpected log message from a Liberty JVM. It wasn't frequent enough to trigger alarms in test, but did once it went to production, filling our logging partition. We attempted to delete the massi...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

zIIP Enable VSAM/RLS processing

Similar to DRDA work coming into DB2, request to see a percentage of the CPU used to process VSAM/RLS requests from CICS enabled for zIIP offload eligibility.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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