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Add Date Time offset fields to SMF 110 record header

With the growing customer need to load SMF data into analytical tools, the requirement to align and associate the various records from multiple time zones using date and time is becoming more critical. The lack of date time offset values in the so...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

CICS APPL example update

CICS sample VTAM APPL definition does not include LOSTERM=IMMED
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS File State Retention

Add persistance to SET FILE command allowing us to maintain state across COLD/WARM/EMERGENCY starts.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Java CICS debugging requires a dedicated JVM

Debugging a JCICS application requires a dedicated JVM. This means that a JVMSERVER cannot be shared by multiple developpers and requires as many JVMSERVERs as developpers/environments.. We would like to be able to share the same JVMSERVER between...
over 11 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...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Need mechanism for recovering isolated CMAS without restart

The ability to:1) Recover an isolated CMAS without having to restart the entire CMAS address space.2) The ability to tune/configure the timeout interval that leads to CMAS isolation in order to avoid having these events occur.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 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...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS CICS XML Assistant - recognize min/max lengths specified in XSD <pattern> elements

Requesting DFHSC2LS enhancement to recognize min/max lengths specified in XSD <pattern> elements to reduce COBOL copybook lengths. DFHSC2LS does not recognize min/max length specified in XSD <pattern> elements and generates COBOL copyb...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Update CICS SPI INQUIRE CONNECTION to provide ATTACHSEC, SECURITYNAME, BINDSECURITY and USEDFLTUSER fields

We have a customer looking for security related information in connection resource; specifically ATTACHSEC. According to CEDA DEFINE the following fields are available in CICS resource definition for Security: SECURITY SEcurityname ==> ATtachse...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Multiple CPSM ESSS Subsystems on one LPAR

2 separate CICSPlexes are connected to separate CMAS on the same LPAR. Each CICSPlex and CMAS respresents a separate Environment such as development and maintenance Environment. Each CMAS should have his own ESSS Subsystem on the same LPAR. So the...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration