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Support for APM tokens in CICS Transaction Gateway

The use of Application Performance Management software continues to grow rapidly in large enterprises. The market has a 25.1% CAGR, and is expected to grow in value to almost $6 billion by 2023 (“MarketsandMarkets Cognitive Operations Market Globa...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

MQ SVRCONN sends "Recycle MQ Svrconn" Console Message when long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Activate" or "Acceptance"

MQ SVRCONN or OLDR sends "Recycle MQ Svrconn" Console Message when long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Activate" or "Acceptance" of loadset that contains "C" Library Component CTAL 1. The Travelport z/TPF Complex has distributed servers which connect...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

MQ SVRCONN long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Acceptance" of loadset containing "C" Library Component CTAL

MQ SVRCONN long running ECB's prevent OLDR "Acceptance of loadset containing "C" Library Component CTAL 1. The Travelport z/TPF Complex has distributed servers which connect to the z/TPF MQ Server using the MQ Client. 2. These generally support l...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Online warning message for RLOG records

Customer is ask for an online warning message when RLOG records reach 75% full in order to prevent the system from going catastrophic with a C117 dump.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Implement EXEC CICS INQUIRE POLICY SPI command

A new SPI INQUIRE POLICY command needs to be added in order to allow running through the policy definitions to collect statisistical usage information. Without an INQUIRE START/NEXT/END process, the user must know exactly which policies they are l...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Use new START TASK NEWREQ when starting tasks out of listeners (MQMONITORs, SOCKETs, etc.)

Add a new option when creating listener tasks ([Deleted] as MQMONITORs or IP SOCKET listeners) to allow sites to spawn work independently from the listener task. See the RFE on providing a NEWREQ option to EXEC CICS START TRANID() NEWREQ.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

CICS GLOBAL ENQUEUE / DEQUEUE issue related to use of RNL

Allow the customer to control whether the CICS GLOBAL ENQ/DEQ issues the ENQ/DEQwith RNL=NO or RNL=YES.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122

Please provide a new UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFC 4122. To be able to generate version 4 and 5 in the same program we suggest the following implementation: - New UUID4 built-in function- Rename UUID to UUID5 built-in ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Return the highest RC when assembling a batch of programs

From the Assembler List forum ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 17 Jun 2012 to 18 Jun 2012 (#2012-113)====================================================== The following email was posted: >The assembly uses the BATCH option. There are multiple assembly ...
over 12 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Delivered

Threadsafe access for Shared Data Tables (GSE requirement GGCIC06006)

Access to Shared Data Tables generates lots of TCB switches with the according performance decrease
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered