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Enhancing Health Checker for recursive S0C* abends

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for Max Tasks (MXT)

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams. It would be better if it can respond when a region is approaching MXT from say 75% then 80%...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for Short-on-Storage (SOS) above or below the line

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Expose MQ API options in CICS aux trace

We constantly find ourselves trying to debug MQ related activity in CICS. Many of these issue relate to applications setting MQ options incorrectly, and this happens many times unbeknownst to them. CICS sysprogs also many time do not have access t...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

In a resource overrides .yaml file, allow multiple attribute values within a single selector clause to be OR'd.

Currently the logic would seem to support 1 attribute value on a given selector clause. If I have a resource attribute which can have many possible values and I want to trap some set of those values and apply the same override to each one, I have ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration

Additional shutdown option for CPSM

In the event that CPSM cannot be shut down and requires an IPL it would be good to have the option to try to avoid that. So maybe some sort of Force Terminate utility option - accepting it could not be guaranteed to work in every scenario, just so...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

WEB SEND should allow options to be provided with values indicating the option is to be ignored

EXEC CICS WEB SEND should be enhanced allow all options to be provided as long as all of the options are set to values such that they do not conflict with one another. This would allow a single "WEB SEND" command to be used where some of the optio...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Specify the CCSID in the DFHLS2JS utility so that the char data in the data structure can be encoded independently at runtime

We can use the DFHLS2JS utility in the CICS JSON assistant to create from a copybook a bundle that contains the JSON file. The JSON file is normally used again in a CICS transaction. Now it is the case that we want to reuse the utility for another...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to enable/disable JVMENDPOINT resource in CICS TS Urban Code Deploy plugin

CICS TS 5.6 created a new resource called a JVMENDPOINT. We would like to be able to issue enable and disable commands for this new resource via the CICS TS Urban Code Deploy plugin.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

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