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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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TO IMPROVE FILTERS OF CEDX / CEDF

- CEDX / CEDF with more functions. To improve options like "PF9 : STOP CONDITIONS" allowing STOPPING on specifics EXEC SQLs .... We know that right way to call programs under CICS environment is using EXEC CICS XCTL and EXEC CICS LINK , but we kno...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Reset Statistics Partially

Currently it is only possible to reset the statistics (SMF) of all attributes (TRANSACTION, TRANCLASS, etc.) together. Granularity in statistics reset would be very useful for monitoring and metrics, and I understand that it is easily justifiable ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CMCI to allow multiple connections

We have 50 CICS regions in our system, and we do not have CICSPlex installed. There is no demand for CICSPlex. Hence, I use CMCI in CICS Explorer to connect to each CICS region individually. .This RFE is to allow more than one CMCI connection (at ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

DFHFC7084 issued when CICS resyncs to CFDT

This REQ is being raised by CICS L3 Service who actually took an apar for this problem for further investigative work but eventually deemed it to be beyond the scope of an apar fix. Basically, CICS is interfacing with a CFDT Server and an inflight...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS START ATTACH more general

An EXEC CICS START ATTACH command can only be executed as a non-terminal-request. There is a need for a terminal oriented (single threaded) START command that is executed immediately. A START command with TERMINAL is only executed every 256 millis...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE PROGRAM() USECOUNT() We need to be able to make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Modify CICS translator to dot qualify translator generated code.

Development group is attempting to implement/enforce new coding standards. One of these includes the use of the NOLAXQUAL PL/I directive. However, the CICS translator does not dot qualify internally generated variables. This causes the PL/I compil...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

CICS MQ Listener (CPIL) serialisation of In-Only messages

CICS MQ Listener enhancement to serialise (or otherwise throttle) processing of "in-only" requests. The CICS MQ Listener for web services (CPIL) currently schedules a new task immediately upon arrival of each message on a request queue. This is id...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance AFCI/AFCY to indicate holder of resource

Enhance the AFCI/AFCY transaction abends to indicate what task was holding the resource. This could be done by dumping (not abending) the holding task or at least producing a message showing what the holding task was.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Federated Registry support for CICS Liberty

System : CICS Liberty - Registry Actor : User who has the dist LDAP ID by ID Propagation and SAF ID in z/OS In the CICS Liberty, the ID Propagation can be configured to support mapping the distributed LDAP registry ID and SAF ID. In this case, the...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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