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Change DFHMQSSQ to accept COMMAREA input as well as INPUTMSG.

Customer uses MQ and start monitor transaction CKTI with different inital queue during CICS start up, one of the CKTI is started from SIT, all others are started by PLT. For those CKTI started by PLT will need to manually start after MQ recycled. ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Correct 0C1ABEND when running a batch DB2 application that has been mistakenly linked with the CICS-supplied DFHD2LI.

" Customer reports problem with a COBOL program compile/le/bind/run using DYNAMIC option. An Abend-aid dump will show ABEND0C1in module CEESTM00. This module does not exist in the CEEproduct code per IBM. Root cause: CICS library containing DSN mo...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

When DFHLG0780 is issued you can only delete/define the logstream

After a Coupling Facility failure on a production environment, the delete/define action had to be performed against a user journal due to error message DFHLG0780 X'00000004' X'00000407' . We expect that,in case of a user journal,the choice to proc...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide way to suppress unwanted Program Definition Statistics

Program Definition Statistics were added in CICS/TS 4.1.Customer is a large shop with over 50,000 program definitions, These program definition statistics resulted in a very large increase in the numberof SMF records, resulting in SMF buffer full ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS need parameter to avoid the generation of single physical members for every datastructure

Problem occurs during DFHSC2LS. The Job generates datastructures based on schema definitions and place them in single physical members. If there are many datastructures in schema-file, then DFHSC2LS generates a huge amount of copybooks which is ve...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Performance Class Monitoring Program Storage HWM fields can be non-sensically high when a program is repeatedly loaded

Performance Class Monitoring Program Storage HWM fields like PC31SHWM are sometimes non-sensically high, approaching 2 gig. This happens when a task EXEC CICS LOADs a program repeatedly without ever doing an EXEC CICS RELEASE. Even though the prog...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ABEND AITE not for DTIMOUT (GSE Requirement GGCIC11008)

BUSVAL : INVVAL : ENDVAL : GROVAL : SYSVAL : KEYWORDS : UGVOTES : +5=1 +4=1 +3=3 +2=5 +1=7 0=8 -3=1 Abstain=8 Priority=1.8DESCRIPT : We use Java/CTG/CICS-style applications. Due to large memory-usage und automatically resolve SOS-conditions we set...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Extend the EXEC CICS API to provide 'Named Storage' (SHARE Requirement SSCICS11002)

Currently CWA storage is used to anchor SHARED storage acquired by an EXEC GETMAIN FLENGTH(length) SHARED. This solution cause headaches managing the CWA usage. Having Names for storage areas is a MVS and Unix concept needed in ever increasing com...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Should Show LE Release Level at Startup

When CICS starts up and initializes LE it should write a message with the version and release of LE that is being used. This would facilitate problem determination by making the release of LE easy to find.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

security limitations in debug tool

I want to check the permissions of the user, the screen fields in DTCN or CADP, for example, limiting the user to debug only a specific program name or prefix, limiting to a specific user that started the transaction, a particular terminal, and so...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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