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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICSPlex SM WUI. A message warning that the last resource of a group was deleted and a option to delete or not the group too.

When the last resource or component of some grouping is deleted, there is no message to inform this fact, e.g.: resource definitions in a resgroup, CICS system definitions in a CICS system group, etc. Customer has requested a message to inform thi...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS fails to provide First Failure Data Capture for an abend301

CICS failed to provide First Failure Data Capture for an abend301. CICS will never document that the original abend in a series of failures began with the abend301, and no messages or dumps will be produced for it. A very important piece of this s...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Trace point AP 04BA for CILOCK=NO

With SIT parameter CILOCK=NO, create trace point AP 04BA illustrating the task number, transid, and FCT of the conflicting task holding an ENQUEUE on record-id after a READ for UPDATE. This ENQUEUE may cause waiting task to be force purged with an...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Be able to read/write spanned VSAM records larger than 32K.

Customer would like to be able to read/write spanned VSAM records larger than 32K in CICS/TS. The maximum record length that CICS is capable of processing is approximately 32K. One of the interfaces imposing this limitation is the LENGTH keyword f...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dump function to browse container data over 32KB for problem determination

Dump function to browse container data over 32KB for problem determination
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS SOS Condition Handling

Improving SOS condition handling: + Consider raising 'max task'-like condition to inhibit starting of newtransactions, allow actives to finish and free storage before starting newtasks + Secondary entry to SOS within short interval, consider expan...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS CEDB Logging

The CICS CEDB transaction does not log activity or changes to CICS transaction definitions. - The CEDB transaction can change the security characteristics for transactions. - The analogy to the CEDB transaction is RDEFining and RALTering profiles ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add FTP functionality to the CICS environment.

Allow CICS to function as an FTP client and/or server using APIs for the various languages.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide INQUIRE support for XPI enqueues

Add support for XPI enqueues to the API EXEC CICS INQUIRE UOWENQ command or create an XPI INQUIRE equivalent.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Distributed routing program not invoked for terminal related EXEC CICS START if transaction definition specifies REMOTESYSTEM

Distributed routing program not invoked for terminal related EXEC CICS START if transaction definition specifies REMOTESYSTEM parameter.User specifies DYNAMIC(YES) ROUTABLE(YES) and REMOTESYSTEM parameters on the CICS transaction definition but th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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