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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Reduce recovery time for CICSPlex SM CMAS or network outage to 30 mins or less to be more consistent with other subsystems

Reduce recovery time for CICSPlex SM CMAS or network outage to 30 minutes or less to be more consistent with other z/OS subsystem recovery times such as DB2. In a CICSplex consisting of hundreds or thousands of connected CICS MASes with a large CM...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM Allow WLMAWAOR view to be modified by an EVALDEF to set a QUIESCED AOR to ACTIVE when another AOR has become unavailable

CPSM - in the event of a region not accepting work, could CPSM automatically activate a spare region? We have a 'spare' region in QUIESCED status in WLMAWAOR, the question is whether this region can beactivated without trapping an SNA alert and co...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Expand Scope of TRANCLASS to Sysplex level

We use CICSPLEX WLM for almost all of our business transactions. Our DB2 Systems group requests us to put the limit on the concurrent tasks of certain transactions in order to avoid the EDM pool shortage. TRANCLASS is a perfect feature if a transa...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Record Warning Count for TSQ resources

Record Warning Count supports TSMODEL resource, but excludes other TSQ resources : TSPOOL, TSQGLOBAL, TSQNAME, TSQSHR, and TSQUEUE. Customer requests that the product be consistent when providing Record Count Warning for CICS resources displayed b...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Route application messages written to MSGUSR to the Operating System Console under the control of CICSPLex/SM

Occasional customers need to redirect a CICS or Application messages, written to TD (MSGUSR), to the system console. Their need for this could be for diagnostic purposes or to take advantage of automation, trigger by messages being written to the ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Generic Overwrites for CPSM (GSE requirement GGCIC09005)

Field "Overwrite string" in RASGNDEF allows to overwrite fields in existing RESDEF objects. Actually generic overwrites are not possible but in many cases very useful. Systems management would become much more effective. Low values are set because...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Remove " EYUXE0025E ESSS and PC Routines Mismatch Encountered "restriction

Remove the requirement for the EYU9Xnnn ESSS loadmod in SEYULINK having to match the maintenance level of the EYUTXEPC PC routines load module. The customer runs a large SYSPLEX environment and their standard maintenance strategy is to upgrade the...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM Scope: System / Group Wildcard

It would be convenient to have a CICS System or CICS Group wild card, when specifying scope. For instance look @ all regions with A+++CICG, or look @ all regions B+++CICG etc, new copy only in A+++CICG etc, Since Scope can be either a CICS System ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM : COLM request should be queued behind the COSH.

When we have a problem that requires a restart of the MAS agent, we issue a COSH request to stop the MAS agent, and then issue a COLM request to restart it. Due to timing issues, the COLM request may be issued before the COSH request has fully com...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Setting up a time-out mechanism in detecting workload association

We had a situation where routing region was not associated with a workload, and CPSM kept re-dispatching the transaction checking this association every second as if in a loop. This leads to a MAXTASK situation in the region, and prevent other tra...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration