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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS is not able to protect itself by yielding loop

A transaction is a yielding loop will have its runaway timer clock values reset everytime it enters a wait or suspend. The runaway mechanism in CICS will not abend these transactions with an AICA. A mechanism is needed to allow the user to set a t...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Make INQUIRE TRACEDEST, TRACEFLAG and TRACETYPE threadsafe

Are the following commands on your list for making threadsafe:·         EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRACEDEST          ·         EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRACEFLAG          ·         EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRACETYPE
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

"READ-ONLY" CEDF and CEBR

In order to justify using CEDF and CEBR in production system, we would like to have a "READ-ONLY" version of the transactions. If you are trying to trace a transaction running on another terminal that you are not authorized to run, you are not abl...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

DFHSTUP Transaction count truncated.

User transaction counts that exceed 8 characters(99,999,999), get truncated and an "M" appended to the value for example: 110M transaction count as apposed to the actual value.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Short of storage(SOS) limit storage usage by transaction.

For a long time, when CICS goes into SOS mode, after using the storage cushions and program compression, SOS may continue andstop all users from continuing their work. Would like to see CICS provide some parameters to limit the usage of DSA and ED...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide AID chain summary in IPCS output

Customer had a huge amount of AIDs created in his region.This can either result in a huge amount of output when the dump of the region getsformatted with the TCP=2 keyword
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Transaction Server 4.2 Support for TLS 1.1 +

Due to the recent discovery of the BEAST exploit, CDC ciphers using TLS 1.0 or below are vulnerable. Currently CICS 4.2 only supports TLS 1.0. I would like to see IBM include support for TLS 1.1 and above. Thanks!
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Audit messages for CEMT resource changes

Require messages to be issued on the CICS System Log when CEMT is used to alter any resource or setting. There is a great facility, which already exists, to audit CEDA Resource alterations, providing a BEFORE and AFTER image in CSSL. This is the k...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS and CPSM audit trail for CEMT commands

We have had some instances where a transaction was disabled or other activity occurs to a CICS resource. We don't know who did what or why. We would like to have a log to the user id and activity that occurred, especially for audit or problem reso...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Add zAAP and zIIP (if applicable) CPU fields to the CICS 110 records

Add two fields to the CICS 110 record containing the zAAP and zIIP (if applicable) CPU for the transaction.  Similar to the DB2 101 record fields, the current CPU field should only include the CPU consumed on the general CP.  All three fields on a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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