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RACF granulation of CICS tran CEKL SET PURGE, FORCEPURGE and KILL commands

We want to allow the app devs to purge or forcepurge misbehaving transactions but not to kill them, for example. CEKL/CEMT SET KILL is hazardous to address space integrity in ways purge or forcepurge are not. We don't want app devs to be able to...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CICS - Change MCT parameters with online command

Good afternoon, Please check the possibility of chaning the MCT parameter via online command, in flight, without the necessary of stop/start of CICS that is currently needly.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Future consideration

CICS APPL example update

CICS sample VTAM APPL definition does not include LOSTERM=IMMED
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS DEBUG CADP - NO WAY TO DELETE DEFUNCT USER PROFILES

When using CICS Debug CADP profiles - there is no way to delete profiles which belong to defunct userids (similar to the DTCD transaction that is provided for the DTCN type profiles). We have over 100 CADP profiles defined and need to clean-up our...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

JAVA in CICS - SMF recording of user program/tranid/userid

The customer (FCA/Chrysler) would like to track CPU usage for Java programs running in CICS. From what I can tell the SMF 110 data is only collect for CJSA transactions that the Java programs run under.Does the SMF 110 data for CJSA have any other...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Allow DFHDPLOY to discretely use BAS or CSD based on the request

When requesting a CICS BUNDLE DEPLOY or UNDEPLOY via Urban Code Deploy, the DFHDPLOY step that is executed should only access CSD or BAS as specified in the Urban Code Deploy step. Current behavior is that when we try to DEPLOY a BUNDLE to CSD, DF...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

DFHDPLOY to fast fail when security errors encountered

When using DFHDPLOY to install a CICS bundle and a a security error is encountered, the DFHDPLOY process appears to continue to attempt the install until the timeout value has been reached. The DFHDPLOY process shows no indication of a security er...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Is a defect

DFHWS2LS java/lang/OutOfMemoryError Out Of Memory OOM

When too many Operations are chosen, the job executing DFHWS2LS gets error message "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError"The problem is that it doesn't take very many operations to be "too many". Also, there is not guidance on how many operations can be inc...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS - xsd:NonNegativeInteger mapped as string instead of integer in PL/1 and COBOL

We use the CICS XML assistant(DFHSC2LS) to do XML schema to PL/I language conversion. In the XML schema we have a datatype xsd:nonNegativeInteger which is getting converted to Character. Ideally we would expect a conversion to fixed decimal instea...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

replace SMF record compression in CICS w/zEDC ?

Request that Hursley performance team benchmark ( general purpose ) CPU reductions that may be realized by replacing CICS compression of SMF records with zEDC
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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