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DFHSTUP Transaction count truncated.

User transaction counts that exceed 8 characters(99,999,999), get truncated and an "M" appended to the value for example: 110M transaction count as apposed to the actual value.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Short of storage(SOS) limit storage usage by transaction.

For a long time, when CICS goes into SOS mode, after using the storage cushions and program compression, SOS may continue andstop all users from continuing their work. Would like to see CICS provide some parameters to limit the usage of DSA and ED...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide AID chain summary in IPCS output

Customer had a huge amount of AIDs created in his region.This can either result in a huge amount of output when the dump of the region getsformatted with the TCP=2 keyword
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Transaction Server 4.2 Support for TLS 1.1 +

Due to the recent discovery of the BEAST exploit, CDC ciphers using TLS 1.0 or below are vulnerable. Currently CICS 4.2 only supports TLS 1.0. I would like to see IBM include support for TLS 1.1 and above. Thanks!
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Audit messages for CEMT resource changes

Require messages to be issued on the CICS System Log when CEMT is used to alter any resource or setting. There is a great facility, which already exists, to audit CEDA Resource alterations, providing a BEFORE and AFTER image in CSSL. This is the k...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS and CPSM audit trail for CEMT commands

We have had some instances where a transaction was disabled or other activity occurs to a CICS resource. We don't know who did what or why. We would like to have a log to the user id and activity that occurred, especially for audit or problem reso...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add zAAP and zIIP (if applicable) CPU fields to the CICS 110 records

Add two fields to the CICS 110 record containing the zAAP and zIIP (if applicable) CPU for the transaction.  Similar to the DB2 101 record fields, the current CPU field should only include the CPU consumed on the general CP.  All three f...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Rational Developer for System Z Relationship

Currently RDz is shipped without a full function version of CICS Explorer. Also, the CICS Explorer version contained in RDz is currently driven by the RDz GA date.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Provide a prompt for the location of the profile created by CICS Explorer

This is opened on behalf of a customer BC BS FL. Provide the ability to select the location of where the CICS Explorer profile is stored.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

API enhancement for CICS Web Services

In order to handle repeating groups in CICS Web Services, we would like to suggest a CICS statement that could GET a single occurence of data in a repeating group - something like this: PERFORM VARYING IX FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL IX > TEST-NUM EXEC CI...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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