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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Need change ERDSASZE online

ICBC want the capability to change ERDSASZE without restart CICS region
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need to change TS system initialization parameter online

Could CICS provide a way to change SIT parameter "TS" without restart CICS region?
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Remove settings for APPLID in CICS IPIC connection

Customer requests simplification of IPIC connection so that APPLID is not required. In this case, the connection will not be dedicated to one region and will be more HA. In customer's scenario, they have several TORs on z and AORs on Txseries. Cur...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability for CICS Explorer Administrators to disable default Menu Options and Perspectives.

Specifically we would like our CICS Explorer Administrator to be able to modify the default .exe file such that the “FILE” Menu “Switch Workspace” option was disabled. This is critical for CICS Explorer Deployments where the .exe file is shared an...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

support RMODE(64)

CICS only support Rmode 31 and 24. ICBC wants CICS support Rmode 64
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Need a new transaction equivalent to CEMT INQUIRE

The auditors want reports on who has accessed critical transactions such as CEMT. Even though we have our security definitions set up so most users can only use INQUIRE with CEMT, SMF simply reports a user executed CEMT with no further breakdown. ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need CPSM auto affinity for LOCK/TASK similar to LOCK/UOW that extends the affinity to the entire task.

Need a CPSM auto affinity for LOCKI/TASK similar to LOCK/UOW except that the DPL affinity is extended to the lifetime of the task and not just the UOW.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

CPSM BADWRKLD documentation.

Message that indicates bad workload in CPSM and information on how to get detailed documentation. The exception trace records are suppressed with PM44954, there is no indication of how to be aware there is a BADWRKLD problem, and how to get docume...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

There is no CICS API/SPI or command to display the AID chain.

Provide a API/SPI similar to the INQUIRE TSQ and DELELTEQ TS for AIDs. The INQUIRE function should return the Trans, Term, Term Status, Owning System, AID Type, Request ID, AID address and Age of the AID. The DELETE or CANCEL function should allow...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

PL/1 Pointer support creating CICS Business Events

The Customer has been running a PoC for creating CICS Business Events to be emitted to IBM Business Monitor. Unfortunately The customer are using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer dows not work....
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

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