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avoid TCB stealing when CICS start up with traniso=yes

When CICS starts up with transaction isolation=yes, and transaction is defined as threadsafe. It is possible that lots of TCB stealing for transactions run the first time. It affects the performance a lot. Customer think it is a design issue. CICS...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Name counter server on Disaster Recovery Side

Hello,We've been using name counter server in our production systems. We have no problem until we open it on Disaster Recovery side. Currently when we bring up the system from the DR side, first we issue sql query to obtain latest numbers from the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS JOURNAL + EIBAID + EIBCPOSN

We need to be able to journal the EIBAID plus the EIBCPOSN fields to make a sufficient audit trail, without addressing CICS internal control blocks.The best solution will be a new option to the existing DEFINE PROFILE MSGJOURNAL(INP) request to te...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() at specified LEVEL()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN RETURNPROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN INVOKINGPROGRAM() We need the ability to make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() LEVEL() Where LEVEL() is an input-parameter.LEVEL(0) returns the name of the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE PROGRAM() USECOUNT() We need to be able to make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE

We need the ability to make receive of terminal input data without changing the 'status' of the TIOA: EXEC CICS RECEIVE ... NOCHANGE
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TCPIPService definition be able to get Hostname / IP address and port information from CICS System definition.

Customer intends to use the IPCONN Autoinstall program (DFHISAIP). However, as they have a CICSplex with several MASes, he would like to define just one TCPIPSERVICE, protocol (IPIC), to be used for all regions during the autoinstall process. For ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Propagate SOAPFAULT to locally-optimized WebServices

With Webservices, a service-provider can issue SOAP-Faults to return information to the service-consumer. These SOAP-faults are modeled within the wsdl. If the service-consumer uses the INVOKE SERVICE command to call a WebService that runs locally...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Avoid overhead of systrace snapshot at program check time

CICS uses an ESTAE or ESTAEX to establish its general purpose recovery environment. One of the performance implications of this design is that on every program check, before the CICS ESTAE exit routine is driven, RTM2 will do a systrace snapshot (...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Determine issuer of Call level DLI call from XRMIOUT exit program

We have a need to determine, at run-time, the invoking program of every EXEC CICS call and of every External Resource Manager call..Our application programs are mostly Cobol programs.These Cobol programs often use a Cobol dynamic call to invoke ot...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

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