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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS message for TCP/IP connection failure during startup

After an IPL, TCP/IP and CICS are started. A CICS region fails to connect TCP/IP during this startup since TCP/IP is not completely initialized. This issues message DFHSO1001 with code 0CA8 (NMI INQUIRE failed) as well as a CICS dump. From Knowled...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS could gather diagnostics information regarding TCPIP stack failures.

When TCPIP Stack has left the TCPIP SYSPLEX GROUP by consequence of a failure on the stack itself and do not prevent if of working for completely. On this case, CICS TCPIPServices, used for receiving IBM INTEGRATION BUS (or Message Broker) calls ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS Explorer - The ability to set the Contxt and Scope fields

We require the ability to set our Context and Scope in a quick and efficient manner. Expanding the tree view in the CICS Explorer and the CICSPlex Repository views is not acceptable. In a large complex environment there can be thousands of entries.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Allow use of System Symbols in CICS LIBRARY resource

Hello,we are implementing CICS LIBRARY resources in our CICS Systems.However we'd have appreciated being able to specify System Symbols in DSNames within the Library concatenation. As we currently use System Symbols to make products upgrades in ou...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

key product after using CICS trial

we would need a key to activate the product CICS after using CICS trail when the tests are completed
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

error code on FREEMAIN on a ptr-ref from a GET CONTAINER SET(ptr-ref)

CICS to returne a error code on FREEMAIN on a ptr-ref from a GET CONTAINER SET(ptr-ref). Currently we get DFHPG0002 and DFHSM0002 error messages in CICS log when CICS try to freemain the storage and this has already been freemain in a business app...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Put transaction and system dump tables in RDO (SHARE requirement SSCICS94012)

Settings for transaction and system dump codes should be able to be defined dynamically with RDO.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Set lower limit for TRTABSZ SIT parm

The CICS Internal Trace Table TRTABSZ parameter has defaulted to 12M since version 5.3. Before that it was 4M in CICS 5.2. Yet we still have customers coming in with extremely small trace table sizes (64K, 128K, 256K, etc.) that would on the surfa...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Support multiple conditions per Policy system rule

Allow a system policy rule to be defined when multiple conditions evaluate true. For example when the MQ connection is enabled AND the DB2 connection is enabled. Another example would be when multiple bundle resources achieve a desired state.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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