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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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add purgethresh for MXT queue

Add a new SIT that can control the queue length of transactions who are waiting for MXT like purgethresh in Tranclass.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM is generating ATNI message & dump

Customer Fargo has a CPSM HealthCheck program that reads sysout looking for messages that might reflect an error that it "does not know". And in this case (see PMR for ANTI / dump discussion), it also generates a dump ... which customer then feels...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CMAS PUT Maintenance Upgrade

Recently, the customer faced an issue where a production failure that resulted from the need to restart all CMAS regions at the same time. The shutdown prevented an online application being able to use the CPSM API with a flow on effect that impac...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CMAS repository synchronization fails during Non-MP CMAS Upgrade after applying UK58439.

After applying PM13554/UK58439, Upgrading the non-MP CMAS fails when MASs are started before repository synchronization takes place to re-import the cicsplex. The customer started the upgrad to the non-MP by running EYU9XDUT which produced message...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM to provide a new programming interface for use by CTG's CICS request exit.

We are asking to provide a new programming interface in CPSM, in order to let CTG's CICS request exit select the AOR, taking in consideration the AOR status. Today the route selection algorithm can't call CPSM, so the selected AOR could not be abl...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for CFDT and shared TS access

SIA asks to add to CICS TS V5.4 the following feature, already present in CIS TS V5.5 "Access to coupling facility data tables in CICS TS V5.5 is now threadsafe Access to coupling facility data tables (CFDTs) is now threadsafe, so CFDTs can be acc...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add TRACETYPE to CPSM Resource Table

Please add ability to INQUIRE and SET TRACETYPE, standard and special, to CPSM resource tables.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM additional workload separation field (GSE Requirement GGCIC07001)

Currently it is only possible to create a workload definition (WLMDEF object) for each user, terminal, and transaction group definition. It is desirable to have an additional token to put in an application dependent object. This request came up wh...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve Storage Violation detection

Current CICS storage violation detection is inadequate.Check-zones (even with CSFE CHKSTSK), TRANISO, STGPROT, and SSRANGE only protect some storage.Often, they do not protect against:- An application using storage that it has FREEMAINed- An appli...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Set EIBERR if terminal is no longer usable

If a CICS terminal suffers a TERMERR condition and/orsuffers a Terminal Control abend, the manuals say thatthe task must no longer issue TC commands.But there's no mechanism for an application to determinethat the task is in that situation (other ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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