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CICS unable to process Webservice Requests after Warm Start

The problem is that CICS is shutdown and warm started within an active, high workload environment. As soon as CICS is up the TCPIPSERVICE, URIMAP, and PIPELINE resources are read from the catalog and installed. New Webservice work arriving at this...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

EXEC CICS QUERY SECURITY api command calls performance improvement

A RACROUTE REQUEST=AUTH is performed four times to check READ/UPDATE/CONTROL/ALTER causing four requests to RACF to be performed, this also causes eight task switch from QR to RO TCB .
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CEGN hangs forever after RACF terminal timeout

For the last 8 1/2 years, customer has been running with a USERMOD (V4.1 version ANCEGN4) to handle a situation where badly-behaved customer terminals (over which customer has no control) cause a task to hang forever, taking up a task slot and eve...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Improvements to CICS SSL processing to be able to support FIPS 140-2

Make improvements to CICS SSL processing to make it compliant with FIPS 140-2
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Make SOAP ALIAS transaction available in CICS provided APPLDATA for SMF 119 records

CICS provides APPLDATA for SMF 119 records, processed when an SIOCSAPPLDATA call occurs. Currently this call occurs in DFHSOLS, at the time that the socket is attached, and once per TCPIPSERVICE. For SOAP processing, this call occurs at a point wh...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Web Services validation in a JVMServer

Customer would like IBM to supply a method of being able to validate CICS Web Services in a JVMServer. Having got a JVM Server running under the CICS 4.2 Beta, the very first question asked was as follows: "In the current run of this particular te...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS container processing, relating to CICS Web Services

The ability to append data to container, where that container was previously created by a PUT CONTAINER command. Containers are used extensively within CICS Web Services to store multiply-occurring data structures. Application logic is required to...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS needs to atomically update URIMAP / WEBSERVICE and PROGRAM in one atomic operation

When a existing Web Service provider running in CICS is updated, you need to update two parts which correlate very closely: 1. The wsbind-File (and thereby the respective URIMAP and WEBSERVICE) 2. The program that is called whenever (the CICS PROG...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Timeout for long-time run transaction in CICS

Customer wants the transaction to be purged from CICS when its run time has reach a time-out value. Most of CICS transaction in customer environment has a response time less than 0.03 seconds, some of them may stay in CICS to cosume CPU or other r...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Option to disable RealTimeSyntaxCheck(RTSC) when element is opened in browse mode

Request for the option which can be disable the real time syntax check when the element(program of COBOL or PLI) is opened in the browse mode.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered