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CICS skips calling DB2 signon, if it is a re-signon of the same primary authid.

CICS to call DB2 signon automatically if it is a re-signon of the same primary authid.The RACFSYNC option where CICS has ENF listener is designed for ACEE refreshes to replace waiting for USRDELAY.It was not designed for the DB2 case since this is...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer Customize Columns / Reset Columns

This RFE associated with ongoing 48347 499 000 discussion. Reset Columns is confusing.It should take columns back to baseline definitions whether connected or disconnected in CICS Explorer.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Improve CICS TS FFDC to include dumps of relevant subsystems and dataspaces

Improve CICS TS FFDC to include dumps of relevant subsystems and dataspaces and the ability to request dumps of other address spaces and data spaces using EXEC CICS SET SYSDUMPCODE.CICS TS users experience various serious failures related to tasks...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Improve throughput of program load requests

Performance problems due to multiple load requests can be avoided if we supported multiple entry points within a single COBOL load module. Rather than a transaction loading 20 separate COBOL programs that could cause bottlenecks on the RO and QR T...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Enhance WebServices for COBOL Occurs Depending On clause (SHARE requirement SSCICS08005)

Enhance DFHLS2WS and WEBService Translation services for Cobol Copybooks containing COBOL OCCURS nn DEPENDING ON variable-x.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS Statistics Reporting enhancement

Customer is experiencing a problem in at least one of its larger accounts with truncated numbers in the Transaction Class report. IBM documents this as being a known limitation on page 641 of the performance guide, that overflow is possible on bus...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Change The Control Record In The CSD To Include Previous And Current CICS Release Data

The customer copied the contents of a 5.3.0 CSD to a 6.2.0 CSD. Next, the customer used the DFHCSDUP UPGRADE processing to change the CICS-supplied resource definitions in a primary CSD file. Later the customer noticed that the SYSPRINT from the D...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Message when shared data table is full

Currently, when an EXEC CICS WRITE is issued to a Shared Data Table a NOSPACE condition is raised if the dataspace DFHDT001 is full. A DFHDTxxxx message is requested instead.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Trandef shutdown=enabled/disabled (GSE Requirement DBCICD99021)

DESCRIPT : If a transaction is defined shutdown disabled and is running WITHOUT a terminal, nevertheless the transaction is starting up in the PLTSD-processing. IBM said, that CICS is working as designed. But this is a failure! Tehe problem is doc...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow CEMT, CECI & EXEC CICS INQUIRE display residency status of programs

Currently the only way to see a program's attribute of resident|reusable is to look in a dump. This is cumbersome in a production region because it requires a dump to be taken. CEDA view does not necessarily show the residency status of a program ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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