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My ideas: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Add PERFORM SHUTDOWN parms to set next auto start to COLD or INITIAL

Add the optional parameters COLD and INITIAL to PERFORM SHUTDOWN to set the next non-emergency start to COLD or INITIAL in the global catalog. Setting either parameter would also avoid the overhead of writing the warm keypoint. Note that COLD or I...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Request for WLM Response Time Goal classification capability of authorized mirrored transactions invoked from a child server

Customer has architected a transaction flow that enters CICS (from Tandem) to a child server region over a TCP/IP connection. The CS then invokes an authorized mirrored transaction (TAN2) via a DPL link call. The work associated with TAN2 is only ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

A new parm or alike so that customer can change the default "YES" value of the CEDF Continue option to “No” by theirself.

A new parm or alike so that customer can change the default "YES" value of the CEDF Continue option to “No” by theirself.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Not under consideration

Request to amend CICS compiler to detect undesirable (in HA) commands prior to allowing linkediting.

Certain parts of the CICS API are undesirable in a high-availability environment, for example, those creating region affinities, such as ADDRESS CWA and some enqueues. I would like to see the integrated compiler return an unique non-zero code such...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Add symbollist to GET and PUT CONTAINER

We wish for an enhancement to GET and PUT CONTAINER commands . That it further allows ,as well as the FROMCCSID and INTOCCSID options on the PUT and GET CONTAINER commands , the use of the SYMBOLLIST option that is allowed on a CREATE DOCUMENT com...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS WS2LS support for Datapower

UBS needs a simple and automated creation of the required DataPower artifacts out of WSDL in thw same step as creating the copybooks and WSBIND file. The mapping between WSDL and the copybook is always 1:1 .
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Mark CICS as unhealthy from the CPSM WLM point of view, if RM like e.g. DB2 is not available, but is essential for most trans

If the application ( e.g. described by a trangroup, by the whole WLM specification ) in a CICS region has a dependency on WMQ, IMS or DB2 and the connection to these resources managers is down, CICSPlex SM should mark these regions as unhealthy un...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Option to populate PA Group Definitions from CICSPlex SM groups

CICS PA should have a mechanism to obtain the region ids that are in CICSPlex groups and populate them into CICS PA's Group definitions (Option 1.3 or 6.2). Currently customers have to manually extract the regions ids from the CICSPlex groups and ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Timeout ill-behaved terminals to avoid tasks hanging CICS

CEGN hangs forever after RACF terminal timeout For the last 8 1/2 years, customer has been running with a USERMOD (V4.1 version ANCEGN4) to handle a situation where badly-behaved customer terminals (over which customer has no contol) cause a task ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Locks missing from "DFH" CSD groups

As discussed in ETR Record 18196,999,616. There are six CICS supplied DFH-prefixed groups in CICS TS 320 for which there is no lock record:DFH$SOT DFHCBTS DFHDCTG DFHIPECI DFHRP DFHRPCF There are four CICS supplied DFH-prefixed groups in CICS TS 4...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

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