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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.
over 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...
over 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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 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 ...
over 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...
over 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...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Improve CICS Sockets Configuration and Management

We would like to see the CICS Sockets interface taken over by CICS, rather than being "owned" by z/OS Communications Server (at least I think that's where it is). It's clear from the way one defines and manages this interface that it is not CICS-l...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Reserve task slots for PIPELINE transaction context switches to be able to complete.

When the PIPELINE task performs a context switch to change the userid it will then require 2 tasks to complete the Web Service request. If new requests flood the system then it is possible to have all the available task slots filled with transacti...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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