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Trandef shutdown=enabled/disabled (GSE Requirement DBCICD99021)

DESCRIPT : If a transaction is defined shutdown disabled and is running WITHOUT a terminal, nevertheless the transaction is starting up in the PLTSD-processing. IBM said, that CICS is working as designed. But this is a failure! Tehe problem is doc...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow CEMT, CECI & EXEC CICS INQUIRE display residency status of programs

Currently the only way to see a program's attribute of resident|reusable is to look in a dump. This is cumbersome in a production region because it requires a dump to be taken. CEDA view does not necessarily show the residency status of a program ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

DFHRMUTL enhancement to check for WMKP indicator at STARTUP

The information in the global catalog whether CICS was previously ended right should be considered by DFHRMUTL. So that if, like in the manual written, a COLDSTART is possible at that time, should only be made when we have a WARM KEYPOINT indicato...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Allow a Specific Library name to be specified on a PPT definition (SHARE requirement SSCICS08024)

Allow a Specific Library DD Name to be optionally specified on a CICS Program or Mapset Definition in CEDA, or via auto install. TimeLimit: Until this is provided we can't for see using the new Library feature, due to its excessive I/O and CPU ove...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Receiving big files from a HTTP POST request into CICS in smaller chunks

Customer thinks that would be a great idea to be able to receive big files from a HTTP POST request into CICS; now the customer has the EDSA limit where they have to allocate the storage required to save the whole HTTP request (if the file being s...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS does not cancel the terminal message when online transaction abended with ADCS in CICS and back out was completed in IMS

This problem was caused by the side-effect of APAR PQ48343, which was developed for solve the problem of transaction routing and running local were working differently. PQ48343 fixed that problem but in so doing made deferred sends get sent to the...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Having SYSTEM DUMP CODE and TRANSACTION DUMP CODE managed as RDO object for CICS

Currently to manage entries in the system dump table of CICS Transaction Server we only have to use CEMT command to define/modify entries It would be interesting to have an RDO object to define an entry in the system dump table It would allow auto...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Problem with CICS Server: HTTP TRACE method

CICS CWS Server answers all request HTTP TRACE method, so it could trigger attacks type "cross-site-scripting".
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide a CPU threshhold cancelation feature

Currently there is no mechanism in CICS to cancel/abend a task in a yielding loop from consuming CPU. CICS only has protection against non-yielding loops by specifying the RUNAWAY parm on the transaction definition.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Set Limit on Storage Used by a CICS Transaction

Now that CICS is web enabled applications can create extremely large documents. This can cause the CICS region to go short on storage. It should be possible to limit the amount of storage a transaction uses so that the creation of a large document...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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