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Enhance CICS to cut SMF recs using MNFREQ on open TCB's as well as QR

We use MNFREQ=100 to force SMF 110's to be cut for long running tasks. But if the task is sitting on an MQGETWAIT on an OPEN TCB, we get nothing. It only works when the task is on the QR TCB.Please enhance CICS to allow cutting 110's from an OPEN ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CSMI started by transaction routing should not be counted as user transaction

CSMI started by transaction routing in target region should not be counted as user transaction.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Running CPSM tasks on Open TCB to make sure user transactions can run normally when CPSM task is hang.

Customer encountered some problem while running a CPSM API batch program. During the batch program execution, CPSM tasks are activated on each MAS region to collect resources. Due to some reason, large page in/out happened to Data Space, which cau...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

ADJUSTMENT ON DFHPILSQ

GoodmorningWe would like program DFHPILSQ (CPIL transacation) to be changed so that it doens not wait 60 seconds for a new message to arrive on the Q.We would like to see a second version off this program that processes a MQ messages and maybe a s...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Application bundle issues with Transaction Profiles

While trying to setup application bundles in TS 5.1, I ran into a bit of a problem with Transaction profiles, and the 2 keywords within, that I need. ScreenSize: Alternate and... Upper case translate. Normally I just have my own sample PROFILE for...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS ENQ should conform to CICS standards

All the assembler EXEC CICS commands will generate a LENGTH(=AL2(L'FROM_AREA)) for you if you leave the length off, and the area is not a register such as: FROM(0(,R5)) And in every case I have seen where the length doesn't get supplied automatica...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"

From FITS MR0521136959 CICS SMF 110 Record "originating transaction"Changes were made to the 110 records to help with merging the 110s from the TOR, AOR and FOR.  However, apparently one data element was not included in that effort (original ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

xJCL transform utility

As an application developer, if I want to use batch modernization features, I have to manually rewrite all JCLs to xJCL. Can we have any tool/utility to do the batch transformation? Meanwhile, We're using Control-M scheduler, and we have job depen...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DNS validation - access to 'SubjectAlternativeName'

We like to enhance the existing TLS (based on SSL Cert) security with a DNS validation. The ‚SubjectAlternativeName‘ form SSL Cert must be equal to Caller DNS (CICS EXTRACT TCPIP CLIENTNAME).Today the CICS API CICS ‘EXTRACT CERTIFICATE' gives us a...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DTP over IPIC

enhance IPIC to support DTP
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration