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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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DB2 and CICS pre- compilers do not recognize Cobol V5 floating comments

COBOL V5 allows use of "floating comment", sequence space + " * >" followed by a free text. DB2 pre- compiler (tested with DB2 V10) and CICS pre-compiler (tested with CICS TS 4.2) do not recognize this Cobol V5 syntax comment, and the presence ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

CICSPLex to be configured to distribute workload on percentage basis

Requesting to add new CPSM algorithm that allows us to distribute workload to target regions based on percentage similar to Sysplex distributor.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Banks Services

This is a request regarding CICSPLEX/SM componect of CICS TS z/OS.In case of 2 CMAS on the same LPAR (same version of product) it's important that when one CMAS is closed,the second CMAS get automatically reconnect to the controlled MAS.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS Policy to handle SQL command in a commit scope

Today CICS offer a CICS policy rule type for Database request and it react when the limit of SQL calls is reached - works excellent.We need a feature to react when too many SQL-commands within a commit scope and even better to select between types...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

add cmf fields enqcount and gnqcount

We would like to see 2 new fields added to CMF as binary count fields: ENQCOUNT and GNQCOUNT which tracks the number of enqueues requested by a task and includes either a subset or a separate count of enqueues converted to global enqueues.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

MWP enhancement to CICS SMF 110 records

IBM are trying to encourage customers to run mobile applications on z/OS by offering software pricing options such as Mobile Workload Pricing. WLM APAR OA47042 added the ability to identify transactions as MOBILE in the WLM classification rules. H...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Collapse trailing space with DFHWS2LS CICS Web Services Assistent option

Rabobank want to remove trailing spaces in the translation of COBYBOOK format response message to xml in CICS web services.The use of collapse white space removes trailing AND leading spaces. This is not what is needed.Can there be an option in DF...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

PTHREAD-INSUFFICIENT-STORAGE when CREATE S8 TCB

Customer recently increased MXT and MAXSSLTCB. Now they have encountered theseDFHSO0002 A severe error (code X'0814') has occurred in module DFHSOSE. The trace shows THREAD-INSUFFICIENT-STORAGE when CREATE S8 TCB78004 SP AP 1939 LEPT *EXC* PTHREAD...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Group List doesn't show Resource Group deleted from CSD file as CEDA does.

Group List does not show Resorce Group after Resorce Group was deleted but not removed from Group List . Problem description and business impact If Resource Group was added to Group List and was deleted after, Group List doesn't show this Resource...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Externalize lost locks processing progress with message

Service request opened when site was recovering from a lost locks condition. There was a 20+ minute delay from when the first region in the configuration was brought up, until the time when the last was recovered. As luck would have it, the last r...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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