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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

CPSM should allow multiple events to be named in a WLMSPEC and in a TRANGRP

Description: Dave Williams and Mayur Raya did take a look at the batchrep dump of the WLM definitions and, as discussed during today's call, we noticed that although two RTADEFs had been defined (one called MAKESICK and the other called DB2DEFCO),...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

When a tran abends in a region, CPSM should not route any tran of the same WLM tran group to this target region

Description: FI had observed that following an abend of a transaction in a CICS region, CPSM was still routing transactions with different ids to the CICS region. CPSM currently allows the 'Acceptable level of abend probability' and the 'Acceptabl...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM API Threadsafe

CPSM API to made threadsafe, in line with IBM recommendation for customers to write applications using threadsafe techniques.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Alternative way to manage CICS supplied definitions

I suggest that CICS development move away from CSD-based definitions for CICS-required resources and begin using EXEC CICS CREATE during region startup to ensure that all resources are defined, and defined properly. CPSM began using this approach ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration