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CICSplex Systems Management (CPSM) needs to respond better to LPAR workload

Need a new capability in CPSM to allow customers to manage WLM importance 1 workloads to a percentage of the LPAR capacity. Importance 1 workloads, such as CICS, perform best when they represent less than 95% of the workload on an LPAR. In our cas...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Need MQ shared message consumption to be responsive to CICSplex workload balancing signals

We have two MQ application patterns which are unresponsive to workload balancing. Pattern 1 An application 1) reads a message from a shared MQ queue, 2) starts a new CICS transaction to process the message, and 3) return to step 1. The application...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Support for SHA256

The capabilities that CICS WS-Security requires are; - Full support for <wsu:Timestamp> elements, specifically creating them on outbound messages. - Support SHA256 as a signature algorithm - Support signing of individual elements, specifical...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICSPLEX Systems Manager (CPSM) Web User Interface (WUI) Security for Shutdown of Regions

Shutting down an LMAS (a cics region) via the WMAS (Web User Interface CICS Region) , no Userid is captured in logs to say who shutdown the CICS region. The default User ID of the CICS region being shut down is captured in the logs. Audit requirem...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Read/Write to a HFS (or zFS) file from CICS in a API

To natively read and write to a USS member in a HFS or ZFS file in CICS using a EXEC CICS API. These files should be dynamically allocated when invoked. This would allow a programmer to read a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file (or any other type of fil...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Inquire Details of Autoinstallmodel terminals or Typeterm

With 'CEMT i AUTI' you can see a list of Autoinstallterminalmodels or Typterms, but you cannot look to further details as other resources like files oder terminals. If you type on the line a command like ? or Enter, you don't see any further Detai...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Increase User Limit of 512 for Recoverable CFDT

We have a proprietary CICS dynamic transaction routing exit that uses a recoverable CFDT for managing its routing data. There is currently a CICS limit of 512 regions that can connect to a recoverable CFDT. During our busy processing season, we ne...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Keep track of DFHCSD and BAS changes not only on JESJOBS sysout but also on the repository itself for future investigation

when the cics resources are changed or excluded the messages are displayed only at the jesjobs sysouts and it is missed after a cics recycle, becoming impossible to track the before image.
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

there are still limitations of 2GB, and storage must be reused to effectively utilize the insufficient areas. Therefore, I would like to request a function to secure storage through program compress in advance before reaching short-on-storage.

We're running CICS/TS V5.6. Our CICS is expected to run out of 2G virtual storage in the near future.Basically, the amount of programs used is large, so the size of the ERDSA reaches 800M. As shown below, EDSALIM is 1300M and we uses almost all of...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Specify Mirror transid when MQ Bridge DPLs is implemented

When the cics mq bridge is used in DPL mode , the program embedded in the mq message is executed ( generally in a TOR ). If this program is defined as remote ( with dynamic parm set to yes ) , it will be executed in a AOR with the mirror transacti...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

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