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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS should provide a utility to aid in migrating resource definitions between different repository types, i.e. CSD/BAS/zFS

Please provide tooling to facilitate migrating resource definitions back and forth between all of the various repositories: currently CSD/BAS/zFS bundles.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add a CICS TS Monitoring option to collect enqueue resource contention data

CICS TS only provides monitoring data for ENQDELAY time which is not sufficient for users that need to know the name, length, owner and waiter for specific enqueue resources.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

START TRANSID, with DATE parameter option

Ability to issue a EXEC CICS START TRANSID with DATE option.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Better handling of errors in squential terminal input

If a CICS region experiences a problem reading the input for a sequential terminal at start up, it issues various error messages and then terminates citing a failure starting the AP domain. This seems a rather drastic error for an error related to...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide an option to prevent wait for HRECALL of migrated file ressources

In our test and development systems rarely-used VSAM data sets are often migrated by DFHSM.When CICS opens a migrated dataset, it performs a dynalloc, which waits for the completion of of the HRECALL. The dynalloc runs under control of the resourc...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

GetHostByName call blocks the SO domain TCB, preventing any socket work from running for the duration of the call.

GetHostByName call blocks the SO domain TCB, prevent any socket work from running for the duration of the call. The default timeout of 30 seconds means that we have hung up CICS sockets work for at least 30 seconds. We've reduced the timeout to 3 ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Provide timeout option for outbound HTTP CONNECT requests

If the outbound HTTP function of CICS TS is used to connect to a remote server, the socket CONNECT request can hang for up to 3 minutes if the remote server is not responding. This is the architected z/OS TCPIP timeout value (which cannot be confi...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic definition of log stream names flexible (GSE requirement DBCICD98036)

Dynamic definition of system logs does not cover more than 20 CICS-systems.IBM does not recommend to use more than 20 logstreams within one structure. The dynamic installation of system logs will connect all logs to one structure, even if there ar...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DPL Timeout

When a program in one CICS system does a Distributed Program Link to a program in another CICS system, it needs to be able to time out using the CICS API if the other system is unavailable.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Rexx for CICS should support the CPSM API

We would like to use the CPSM API under Rexx for CICS. It is already available using Rexx in batch and TSO but we want to use it in a CICS environment. Presently it does not appear to be supported.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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