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SMSS regions to support the CMCI JVM server and therefore to support MFA and the aggregation function

Essentially we have standalone regions in environments that don't use CPSM. We have them setup as standalone regions and do connect to CPSM datasets to connect to CICS Explorer using DFHWBAAX version control. We need to do the transition and make ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

LPARNAME in SMF110 records

We would like to generate the Mobile Workload Pricing Report; we are using SMF110 with CICSPA.But in SMF110 records we only have the SMFID field and not the LPARname (that we can find in SMF89 records)We have no common fields between the SMF110 an...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Add http OPTIONS support for resources

CICS currently supports the http OPTIONS method but only for the server itself where the path is an asterisk. Requesting http OPTIONS method support for resources.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

CICS Restart Lite

CICS should be able to be started quiesced, so that we can validate that all CICS resources are available prior to enabling traffic, and so that CICS can be started for emergency restart only, and then shutdown without taking on additional work. O...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Prevent CICS third stage initialization from completing until all JVMs either become enabled or produce an error

We have startup transactions that are loaded after the "Control is Given" message and these transactions require specific JVMs to be enabled or they will fail. We need the JVMs to be initialized and enabled prior to the Third Stage Initialization ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Make CICS Transaction CSGM CAT 3

CICS currently has three category 3 transactions CESN, CESL and CESF which are security exempt as they are supplied transactions that should be available to all users. CESN and CESL are CICS supplied signon transactions and are often used as Good ...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add details of the number of times a transaction has been purged due to tranclass limits

In relation to RFE 133818. Add count to transaction statistics which represents the number of times a transaction has been purged due to tranclass limits.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

more than one Liberty server per CICS region - using authorized services via Angel

We would like to use a several number of liberty servers inside of CICS and use the authorized services via the angel process. Example:It should be possible to run three liberty server in one CICS region, so we can run three different and separate...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Additional System Policy triggers on Tranclass

Similar to the existing capability of defining system policy rules that trigger on the number of current user tasks in a Tran class, provide the ability to trigger system policy rules on the number of queued tasks in tran classes that have a purge...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered