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DFHSC2LS support of abstract datatypes

Problem occurs during DFHSC2LS, when the xsd-file contains abstract datatypes. In this case, an amount of copybooks is generated, one for each variant of the abstract datatype. The structures in the copybooks contain field- or groupnames, which co...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Expand CONFDATA capabilities

Suppress Information in several CICS call such as Write data on "TEMP Storage", passing data in COMMAREA for communication of tasks and programs and also in Channles and Containers. Need to suppress the information when we use CONFDATA intransacti...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Program notification when CICS statistics are reset

Our customer uses the XSTOUT exit to access the CICS statistics. He would like to have his program notified when the CICS statistics are reset. This could be done by calling a user exit, preferably XSTOUT, whenever the statistics are reset.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add FLENGTH, FITEM, and FNUMITEMs to EXEC CICS WRITEQ TS commands (SHARE Requirement SSCICS09017)

When and if you consider rewriting Temporary Storage to support 64-bit main storage, then add fullword versions of the EXEC CICS WRITEQ TS parameters that are now limited to halfwords: LENGTH, ITEM, and NUMITEMS. Based on past implementations thes...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Use of STCKSYNC for EIBDATE and EIBTIME

Request to use the STCKSYNC macro when initially setting EIBDATE/TIME.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Health check for CKTI

"Health-check" requirement: Write "WTO(s)" if CKTI does more than "n" EXEC CICS STARTs for the same TRANID over some time period, where "n" is via a new "parameter"Currently it takes in-house monitors w/AO action to stop this mindless loop no matt...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Modify DFHWS2LS to allow per element-level override of the global inlineMaxOccurs limit

The MAJOR difference between all other platforms and the mainframe is the fact that the mainframe manipulates data stored in displacement oriented blocks. A requirement for displacement oriented data is finite length specification. This hard non-n...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Resource definition retrieval and recreation changes for remote systems

A bit of background relating to why RBC change resource definitions on the fly. 'We have 225 test/development CICS regions on one of our LPARS and one CSD for all these regions definitions. The user of these regions wants the definitions in these ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow transactions started by MQ bridge monitor (CKBR transaction) to be eligible for CICS dynamic transaction routing .

Customer discovered that because of the way that the CKBR transaction (bridge monitor) issues transaction starts supplying a SYSID means they are not actually eligible for dynamic transaction routing. CICS should be changed now to remove this rest...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

New Dataspace message

We need a new message to be produced by CICS each time a new Dataspace is allocated. Customers closely monitor storage use within a CICS region. In the past, there was never a need to worry about dataspace storage for Datatables going above 2GB si...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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