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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

ptf requirement for the function of optimized web support

here is a question from CEB customers, they are now using web support, and they are complain that there are too many transactions for a single http request, eg, CSOL, CWXN, CWBA, and they use FOR as well, so there will be mirror transaction to rea...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Return Code Propagation to CTG

We require that CICS propagate full abend code details to the CICS Transaction Gateway when connected using the IPIC protocol. Currently some abend codes, such as AKCC, are not provided to theTransaction Gateway and thus cannot be passed back to t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Facility to monitor the LACB/LACBE usage for CICS

The number of IRC and IRC XM LOGONs are limited per SVC per LPAR after which no more CICS regions are able to register. There is a need for some facility/tool/command to monitor the usage of related control blocks especially LACB/LACBE.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Platform deactivation without deactivation of bundles

We have > 20 and soon > 50 applications on a platform. At the moment it is not possible to deactivate a platform without deactivating the apps. This is very bad. If we want to add a cics region in production on the fly to a platform region g...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

PL/1 bundle phasein support

We have the developer requirement to quickly test his application in test state. For this we will use zospt to create a new cics for the developer. He then has his own region to test the application. If the developer compiles a modul in a componen...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Extend CICS' integrated digital signature support to include SOAP Headers.

The customer is sending a SOAP message to a business partner and requires one or more SOAP headers to be digitally signed. However, the CICS WS-Security implementation will only sign the SOAP *Body* in outbound messages, as discussed here: publib....
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

New RDO field "OWNER" for CICS resources

Based on the increasing Audit requirements, we are expected to maintain owners of each CICS resource. This way we always know who owns each resource and identify any fraudulent usage. We are looking for a new RDO field for all CICS resources (OWNE...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add SPOOL wait time to monitoring clocks

In our monitoring offering we have been asked to provide a spool wait time as part of the overall transaction wait times. Most of the data we collect comes from the CICS monitoring clocks and counters interface however CICS does not provide a metr...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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