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    SIT Parm to set USER IDLE timeout value which can work with both RACF and AFC2 prodcuts

    With the current process, we need to follow two separate lengthy processes(RACF and ACF2) to lock/logoff the user session after a specific amount IDLE time. It would be very helpful if IBM can provide a SIT Parm like below to control the timeout v...
    8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Make EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

    I want program EYU9XSTR to be threadsafe as it will save us an enormous amount of TCB switches.
    almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    DFHAC2236 does not appear when CICS webservice transaction abends.

    Right now, when a CICS webservice abends only message DFHSR0001 is generated. In order to maintain monitoring and accounting mechanisms it would be nice to have message DFHAC2236 in CICS LOG.
    about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    CICS statistics fields sometimes turn negative or don't make sense

    One of the fields this problem happens to is Storage Manager: Dynamic Storage Areas Statistics field SMSGMREQ ( Getmain Requests ). By common sense, this field should never be negative. But the Cobol version of DFHSMSDS defines this field as signe...
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    CICS Counter API needs ability to list counters defined

    The CICS Counter (and DCounter) APIs, give users the following commands: DEFINE COUNTER and DEFINE DCOUNTERDELETE COUNTER and DELETE DCOUNTERGET COUNTER and GET DCOUNTERQUERY COUNTER and QUERY DCOUNTERREWIND COUNTER and REWIND DCOUNTERUPDATE COUNT...
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Pass Business data from abending transaction to CICS policy EP adapter

    In Policy system rules abend transaction. Offer a CICS container where a CICS transaction business application can put data, like customer id, which could help investigate an abend. The container should be made available to the EP adapter transact...
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Allow CICS to use 2GIG page frames

    Hi, We are a heavy users of CICS Data tables. We load millions of records in many regions to Data tables. We observed that CICS uses all the real memory(4TB per Lpar limit) but still couldn't load all the data we would want. We then reached IBM C...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Descriptive wait reasons for tasks waiting in DB2 or IMS

    We would like more information exchanged between CICS and DB2/DBCTL about the status of a task that is considered to be "in-db2" or "in-IMS", so that the wait reason for a task in a DB2 or DBCTL call shows what the task is waiting on.
    over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Bypass DFHH0414 Health Check for a CMAS

    In CICS/TS v6.1 section "Setting up a CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS)" the manual : XCMD=NO : For a CMAS you must specify NO for CICS commands. But after the v6.1 CMAS is started, there is a DFHH0414 message in health check IBMCICS/CICS_REGION_CO...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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