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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Improved channel usage with RUN TRANSID

We would like improved channel/storage management when using the RUN TRANSID function, to reduce the complexity of solutions using RUN TRANSID, and remove the chance of storage leaks in long running tasks.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Allow RDO definitions to refer to User Globals - in a dfhconfig/UserGlobal directory

Add a feature to allow User Globals Variables to be defined. At the moment there seems to be a small list of CICS-provided variables (&USERID, &APPLID, &SYSID, &JNAME, etc) for use with a subset(?) of RDO definitions. My suggestion...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Adding more information to DFHSM0102 Storage Violation messages

When a storage violation occurs under CICS we get DFHSM0102 messages. For example:15.42.11 STC38008 *DFHSM0102 CICSXXXX A STORAGE VIOLATION (CODE X'0F0C') HAS BEEN DETECTED BY MODULE DFHSMAR.15.42.11 STC38008 +DFHME0116 CICSXXXX 643 643 (Module:DF...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

OPtion to drive additional security check when using EXEC CICS SPOOLWRITE

Provide an option that will drive an additional security check when a task uses EC SPPOLWRITE to submit a job with USER= specified on the JOB card. We want the end user running that task to also require READ access to SURROGAT resource for that US...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Improve documentation around MQMonitor

I think there is a lot of scope for improving the documentation around the security requirements for the MQMonitor. There are a couple of changes around surrogate access by the CICS region logon-id to one or more other logon-ids depending on how o...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

IGYOS4090 I The "LIB" option specification is no longer required when compiling with COBOL Version 5 under CICS.

Using the CICS translator with Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® Version 5, message "IGYOS4090-I The "LIB" option specification is no longer required. COBOL library processing is always in effect. " is no received. This occurs with the CBLCARD option und...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Remove 24 kb limit on COMMAREA if using DFHTRANSACTION channel

If a DFHTRANSACTION channel is specified the COMMAREA size should not exceed 24 KB. If exceeding, the abend AXGE is issued (this has been introduced in apar PI76708). We ask to remove this restriction so we do not have to change the COMMAREA size ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Need way to manage TRANCLASS/PURGETHRESH processing

There should be a mechanism for managing the process of purging incoming transactions that are above the PURGETHRESH limit for a TRANCLASS that does not put the region at risk of being driven to MAXTASK. Either there should be a mechanism for thro...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS timeout for web client commands

We use RTIMOUT to limit the amount of time a CICS web client process(WEB OPEN/SEND/RECEIVE/CLOSE) will wait for a response from a web service. According to doc this is our only choice. It would be more convenient to have the ability to specify a t...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CKTI Retry Logic

CKTI ended with 2345 because we had a failure on CF structure (INITQ is shared in QSG) causing the shared INITQ to be unavailable. MQ in the meantime recovered the CF struc 17 secs later but CKTI had already ended and so we had to recycle CICS, we...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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