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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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enable CICS to gradually degrade task priority

The ability to enable CICS to gradually degrade the priority of a task during the course of its execution,
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Generate CMF Records from CPSM RTA Events

I would like to see the CPSM RTA event notification (messages EYUPN0005W through EYUPN0013W) generate related SMF records via CMF so they could subsequently be processed by the exception report built into the CICS Performance Analyzer product, or ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Run JAVA user programs in the USER-Key and NOT in the CICS-Key.

Run JAVA user programs in the USER-Key and NOT in the CICS-Key.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Enhance EP support to include "implicitly referenced" API fields as well as API calls performed by mirror program

Current EP behavior:1. Currently, the Event Processing (EP) actual event supported fields are only those fields which have explicitly referenced in the CICS API call.Other API data which are not part of the API call are not available to the EP Ada...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

cpsm mas agent tasks should syncpoint occasionally

Long-running MAS agent tasks should issue occasional syncpoints, Please refer to PMR for specific problem, but anytime there is a possibility of GLUEs or URMs running under CICS internal long-running tasks, those tasks should have programmed syncp...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

custermize which resource is collected in statistics

Customer can customize which resource is collected in statistics. eg, only collect dispatch in statistics.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SHARED WORKSPACE IN CICSEXPLORER

We need the possibility to share the CICS EXPLORER workspace across different users. It means that we can have different people that read/write resources on workspace at the same time. So a sort of lock should be implemented.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Add capture point for EXEC SQL in CICS event processing

Event can be triggered when SQL call happens in application.Following information should be capture:1. SQL 2. table name3. variable value in SQL in other word, they want to the whole SQL in event.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Introduce autonomic capability for CICSPlex SM to not terminate the MAS agent when it encounters a CICS short-on-storage

CICSPlex SM MAS agent communications task COI0 was recomposing a MAL and method CTER invoked method XSCG to obtain CICS storage. The storage request returned due to CICS being SOS above 16M and method CTER returned to its caller (method CTES) with...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

BATCHREP should support the creation and modification of CPSM Parameters.

SYSLINK MODEL to be specified as a CPSM BATCHREP attribute and MODEL SYSTEM NAME to be displayable in EYUSTARTCSYSDEF.DETAILED view or retrieved with the CPSM API : All the CSYSDEF parameters can be specified as an input to CPSM BATCHREP CREATE CS...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration