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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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We would like to find a way to collect statistics for LU6.2 connection (onlline way)

We would like to find a way to collect statistics for LU6.2connection (online way). In Performance Guide about CICS/TS V4.2.0 SC34-7177-02 pag. 553 seems that ISC informations for appc connection can be colleced only from SMF110.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Customize Tab within Perspective, have it only update THAT Perspective, not all others

We have an Installation Specific Perspective that was developed to monitor Region Health. Currently that Perspective contains the Region Tab. If we customize the Region Tab in this or any perspective that change to the Region Tab is applied to ALL...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Allow XPLINK Programs to Issue SQL Calls Without Switching to L8 TCB

Give XPLINK X8 and X9 TCB's the ability to perform DB2 requests without switching to L8 or L9 tasks. This would preserve XPLINK's performance benefits and avoid the overhead of task switching.In addition, there are other C++ compiler and language ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Copying a transaction in CE does not work the same as it does with CEDA

When you do a copy of a transaction definition in CE and you change the transaction it does NOT fix the REMOTE Transaction name, but doing it through CEDA does, is there a reason why?
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS externalize to SYS1.LOGREC the PSW and Registers at time of abend.

CICS doesn't currently write out a Software Record to SYS1.LOGREC at time of Abend or Program Check. Such a Software Record would contain the PSW and Registers at time of error. Instead CICS writes that information to an internal Error Table and t...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS SAML support - scenario 5 - resign a modified assertion

1. Channel services sends SOAP request message to CICS with SAML token in SOAP WS-Sec header 2. SSL server authentication between channel services and CICS3. CICS provider pipeline validates SAML token and extracts the contents of the SAML token i...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS SAML support - scenario 4 - extend a SAML assertion

This is just hypothetical in the sense that we haven't decided internally whether it will be necessary or desireable to do this. The proosition is that in a WS enabled end to end architecture, as the user and their service request passes from serv...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Filter Attributs in Editor

Because the sorting in the editors (for example in the region editor) is grouped in a useful, but not always intuitive way it would be great if the editor could be filtered (like for example the eclipse preference window) to find directly the need...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Change DFHDBFK to use LSR rather than NSR,

Convert distributed RDO for CICS file definition to use LSR, for example DFHDBFK. Looking to use transaction Isolation and this pops up on our list of NSR files, Were not using DBCTL, but would be nice to have cleaned up, so does not show up,
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS TS retries zFS errors that are temporary

Improve CICS TS handling of retryable file request errors. Currently, when a zFS file is requested, and USS returns an error, CICS reports a severe error DFHDH0002. Many errors are for "not authorized" and "not found" conditions, which are permane...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

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