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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Provide Default-SIT for HPO (HighPerformanceOption)

In CICS.SDFHAUTH is DFHSIT provided. Most of the parameters formerly have do be declared in your own SIT are now overwritable by PARM='SYSIN'-File. This is really good for administrative work.But for the HighPerformanceOption (HPO) we have to crea...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Introduce TCP/IP Ping capability into CICS API

If a task running in CICS attempts to connect to a server over TCP/IP, for example using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN, this will fail quickly if the target system is reachable but there is no listener on the target port or any handshake fails. However, if t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CESN DFHSNP XCTL to appending user program

Provide CESN DFHSNP on a successful Signon optionally append (XCTL) to a user specified program. The User program to be specified as INITPARM data at startup.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separately

Provide a mechanism to separate out the permission for performing a normal shutdown vs any other, such as immediate.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DFHCNV as RDO supported table.

Support of DFHCNV conversion translation table as RDO.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

System Events for DSA/EDSA storage threshold

Provide a mechanism similar to the task threshold in system events, so that when the storage allocation exceeds a predefined threshold (in percentage), an event would be emitted.Checking the storage usage percentage could be done when a new extent...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide MODESET data in Explorer

We use the WUI to look at MODE information instead of needing to log into hundreds of CICS regions to review this data. We are trying to standardize the using of Explorer and remove the dependency on people using both Explorer and the WUI. Can yo...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Allow custom DFHAPPL length

DFHAPPL is a unique EMP in that it survives a DELIVER, which is important to us because we use DBCTL and some DBCTL functions invoke a DELIVER EMP (I assume to allow separate stats per PSB). We would like to use DFHAPPL because of this ability but...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration