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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Add Trace Entries to the callable interface routine DFHNCTR

Reason: A use has a batch exit program that uses DFHNCTR for a named counter server function. This exit has worked fine under 3.2 for years. Now when moving to 4.2 the first calls get "Server not found RC 304". After re-cycling the batch job it wo...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics dosn't provide chronological serialization sysplex wide

Cics cannot guarantee chronological ENQ acquisition sysplex wide ENQs, so there isn't any way to serialize in chronological ENQs order sysplex wide .
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for Chunked Transfer Encoding for Web Services Responses.

For HTTP 1.1 clients CICS as a service provider should honor the chunked transfer encoding HTTP header when sending the response. For many clients accepting chunked transfers is optimal rather than handling a response sent with a content-length.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS ECI Transactions Delayed by RACF exclusive ENQ.

In a 24/7 Electronic Funds processing environment, CICS transaction processing should not be delayed when the RACF database is being backed up (IRRUT200).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update IBM z/OS CICS related product message manuals to include WTO route and descriptor code information.

In order to provide proactive incident notifications, enable automatic ticket creation and ensure either a human or automated operator is aware of "actionable" z/OS CICS related product events, we need to ensure that all product provided actionabl...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

OTE long running transactions do not get clocks reset at MNFREQ intervals

The customer is migrating to CICS TS 3.2 where the MQ BRIDGE is part of CICS. The MQ THREADS are running on L8 TCB's. The customer has MNFREQ set to the default 15 minutes, but his CPU TIME for the transactions are never getting reset. This causes...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Option NONE in DTRPGM parameter

Parameter DTRPGM in SIT table doas not have posibility of specify NONE as DSRTPGM has. In the client systems, in the aplication environment, program DFHDYP is used massively, analyzing the situation, it is due to the big amount of EXEC CICS LINK P...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Access to several DB2 in CICS region

on behalf of ICBC. Customer wants CICS region has the capability to access to several DB2 in local LPAR at same time.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Web Services is not detecting the reset or loss of connection and purging the associated web alias task

CICS Web Services is not detecting the reset or loss of connection and purging the associated web alias task, thus we end up with multiple tasks just adding load to the already busy systemIn our production system we are finding multiple web alias ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Ability to add multiple resources types to a RESGROUP at same time.

When adding resources to a RESGROUP, you must add each resource TYPE separately. For example, you need to add transactions, programs, files, and DB2 transaction definitions to a RESGROUP for a given application. You must first go to the transactio...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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