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Update IBM provided RDO PPT for DFHPGADX to specify "threadsafe"

Please update the IBM RDO supplied PPT entry for DFHPGADX to specify "threadsafe" rather than "Quasirent".
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Add field(s) in SMF 110 monitoring records for CPU consumed by transaction on speciality processor(s) - zIIP and zAAP

The customer uses the SMF monitoring records for accounting and billing purposes. The lines of business are charged based on CPU time used per transaction. Within CICS, certain transactions - namely those using Java - are able to exploit the zAAP ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support TDQ API Threadsafe

Customer uses lots of TDQ READ/WRITE API in their key access layer application in CICS,they hope CICS can support threadsafe on TDQ access to reduce CPU consumption as soon as possible.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

DFH0STAT could include totals in the Data Tables storage report.

DFH0STAT currently does not total the storage allocation and in-use for all the Data Tableslisted in the report. Customers would find that very helpful in monitoring their Data Table storage usage.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

IPIC connection - Granularity in keep alive function

In a IPIC connection, customer require a keep alive function with a better granularity (in seconds) than that provided by the existing SO_Keepalive socket option which uses the stack-wide time value (two hours in customer environment). So for any ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CMF Buckets for zAAP CPU Time (SHARE requirement SSCICS09013)

CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF) should include a separate bucket for collecting zAAP processor time. Right now we have no way to directly measure the amount of time a transaction spends on a specialty engine. There are a couple of indirect ways to ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS has to provide status information if Lost Locks recovery is taking place

A customer has deactivated a production LPAR because of an error. All the affected CICS regions were restarted on another machine. The AORs did perform lost lock recovery (VSAM RLS) and were operable again after about 1 hour 50minutes. There was a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enable the dump exit routine for CICS DFHPDxxx to run above the 16MB line.

The customer was running the CICS dump exit routine DFHPD650. They were trying to use the ISPF split screen feature. When they attempted to do this they received the following error: IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE DFHPD650 FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- FAILED B...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Correct CMAS Status on WUI picklist when assigning CMAS to a CICSplex.

Submitting at the request of customer, as a result of problem in PMR 46156,L6Q,000. It is not necessarily a new feature but rather a request to correct existing discrepancy. When using the WUI to assign a CMAS to a CICSplex, on the EYUSTARTCPLEXDE...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

WTO - CICS System Events

Customer is interested in System Events however the Events that are currently supplied are not the area they are interested in. Customer is interested in event enabling the EXEC CICS WRITE OPERATOR command so they can track which applications whic...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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