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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Improve doc about installing CICS TS

Client feedback indicates that the installation information for CICS TS is out-of-date, ambiguous and difficult to follow. It doesn't connect well with the other documents that are needed for installing, such as the Program Directory and z/OS docu...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

DFHCSDUP and CEDA do not have the same functionality

The confirmability and compliance in managing systems like CICS is more and more required. For this reason managing the CICS CSD with batch jobs is the preferred way because you can archive your batch job's output for inspection purposes.Because o...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CPSM API : Get CSD DSNAME and BASEDSNAME for DFHCSD for a CMAS

We are using CPSM API to retrieve infaormation about our regions. One of them is the CSD NAME (both DSNAME and BASEDSNAME). Unfortunately, we are not able to do that for the CMAS. It will help us if it was possible. More generally speaking, we can...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Server needs to support requesting a refresh of the performance block for long running inflight tasks

CICS Transaction Server needs to support requesting a refresh of the performance block for long running inflight tasks after a VARY WLM,ACTIVATE | REFRESH command is issued. User is running CICS Transaction Server V1R3M0 had has several long runni...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHRMUTL should print planned STARTUP warm/emergency (GSE requirement DBCICD99024)

DESCRIPT : The information in the global catalog for the planned startup ( warm or emergency ) is not printed by the DFHRMUTL. This means an incorrect (or incomplete) information given by the utility. EMER / WARM brings AUTO ASISBUSVAL : INVVAL : ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CMCI JVM Server does not display Application Data information in response to NETSTAT CONN APPLDATA SERVER command

When the following command is issued under TSONETSTAT CONN APPLDATA SERVER TCP TCPIP FORMAT LONG The tradtional CMCI server port returns the following information CICSWS55 00169D2B Listen Local Socket: ::..5559 Foreign Socket: ::..0 Application Da...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Return Code Propagation to CTG

We require that CICS propagate full abend code details to the CICS Transaction Gateway when connected using the IPIC protocol. Currently some abend codes, such as AKCC, are not provided to theTransaction Gateway and thus cannot be passed back to t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Facility to monitor the LACB/LACBE usage for CICS

The number of IRC and IRC XM LOGONs are limited per SVC per LPAR after which no more CICS regions are able to register. There is a need for some facility/tool/command to monitor the usage of related control blocks especially LACB/LACBE.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions.

there is always a dependency if service applied for CPSM to restart the maintenance point at first. In a CICSplex there should be no dependency regarding the sequence starting CMAS regions and their depending MAS regions.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Switch off CMF for a specified Transaction

CEB has a web support application, a single request will lead to multiple transaction been invoked,eg CWXN, CWBA, as well as some mirror task, this will bring a huge cost to print the CMF data, so they wonder if there is a way to switch off the CM...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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