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Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add fields to the CPSM CICSRGN Resource Table so as to be able to compute the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval ratio

This would make it easier to monitor the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval Ratio. As it is right now, MSGUSR for each CICS region has to be scanned for the DFHDS0102 message. The items needed to calculate this value, or the value itself, could be put int...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Functionality already exists

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Document changes even in security PTFs

When changes are made under the scope of a security PTF, that change is not documented, and this may cause problems for the clients (example: when userid or password is wrong, the message that is issued has changed with a security PTF, and as the ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add to Cics policies the ability to include or exclude specific transaction names.

We need to specify Cics policies to cancel transactions that exceed a specific response time, excluding some long-running ones or those with another allowed threshold. For example, all A* transactions can last for 5 seconds at most, except for ABC...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

Support External JWTs in CICS

Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Extending CICS SMF records with relation between transaction and programs

Hello, we are currently looking into our application which transaction is calling which programs. This is not easy to find out because there is currently no information about that relation in CICS statistics. The CICS statistics already shows whic...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Use of Optimised Schema Defns to improve perf in CICS SOAP Web Services

One of the 'issues' with CICS WS SOAP based services is that XSD validation needs to switched off in live Prodn operation due to the overheads involved. Could though the use of OSR's (Optimised Schema Defns) help here and provide a route by which ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Enable turning USER EXITs on and off through CPSM, CICS Explorer, etc.

Currently this can only be done through the CICS SPI. However, it's not hard to create an exit that locks everyone out of the native CICS black screen (in our case, this was the desired outcome, except for system users), and (as a side effect) pre...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration