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Mark CICS as unhealthy from the CPSM WLM point of view, if RM like e.g. DB2 is not available, but is essential for most trans

If the application ( e.g. described by a trangroup, by the whole WLM specification ) in a CICS region has a dependency on WMQ, IMS or DB2 and the connection to these resources managers is down, CICSPlex SM should mark these regions as unhealthy un...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Timeout ill-behaved terminals to avoid tasks hanging CICS

CEGN hangs forever after RACF terminal timeout For the last 8 1/2 years, customer has been running with a USERMOD (V4.1 version ANCEGN4) to handle a situation where badly-behaved customer terminals (over which customer has no contol) cause a task ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Environment Protection

As previously discussed, we're not able to fully exploit CICS/CPSM dynamic routing capabilities because of one fundamental flaw (as we see it): CICS/CPSM will continue to commit workload to AORs whilst all appears well - sessions are free; CICS re...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Reclaim orphaned storage which was GETMAINed SHARED by CEDF

Reclaim orphaned storage which was GETMAINed SHARED by CEDF :-When Customer gracefully exited CEDF via PF3, the CDSA storage would be freed. Otherwise, those storage elements simply accumulated. Therefore, those accumulated CDSA storage won't be r...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration