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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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End CWS Transaction if Socket is RESET

Our customer has a three Tier application with a client, borker and CICS linked together with TCP/IP using CWS on the CICS side. The broker has a 30 second time-out where it will terminate the connection sending a "TCP/IP Reset" back to CICS. Base...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Have EXEC CICS INQUIRE return all the values that can be specified on EXEC CICS CREATE

You can issue an EXEC CICS CREATE TRANSACTION and specify forexample TPURGE(NO), or EXEC CICS CREATE FILE and specify NSRGROUP(xxxxxxxx). However when you issue and EXEC CICS INQ TRANSACTION or EXEC CICS INQ FILE it will not show TPURGE or NSRGROU...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CETR showing the status of special tracing

Once CETR is used to activate special tracing for a terminal or transaction, there is no external way to see if special tracing is still enabled.Excessive CPU usage was found to be the result of activating special tracing for one or more transacti...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Track RLS quiesce and unquiesce time through monitoring records.

Set up monitoring points to record the times it takes to quiesce and unquiesce RLS files.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

differences between CEDA and CMCI

By using CEDA EX GR i can set a request with group *name* as qualifier. So I get all the values of groups which have the groupname part ‘'name'' in it. In CICS Explorer in resource group definition I can not set the first asterisk as a generic ide...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Need way to view everything a CSYSDEF is involved in.

As part of CICS/CPSM administration and planning, a user needs to know all the resources that a CICS System Definition plays a roll in. For example, if they are going to clone the region, they need to know everything about it - what CICS groups it...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Added parmeters to WEB EXTRACT to unescape and escape

The customer would like to have an option on the WEB EXTRACT command to allow the programmer to specify whether the unescape or escape is done
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separatelyey

The customer would like the ability to differentiate between the commands CEMT PERF SHUT versus CEMT PERF SHUT IMMED . He would like to allow some users access to the normal shutdown command of CEMT PERF SHUT, but not allow those same users access...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Expand the data content of the CICS DLA along with the ability to filter unwanted data.

The CICS DLA currently collects data for 17 resources and only the NAME and LABEL field for each resource. In order to support the change history use case in TADDM, all 35 or so classes needed to be collected along with the attributes of each (min...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

WLM performance blocks are not freed when CICS maxtask is reduced dynamically

WLM performance blocks are not freed when CICS maxtask is reduced dynamically resulting in WLM address space having higher CPU utilization until CICS is recycled with a lower initial MXT value.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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