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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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@CICSProgram Annotation in OSGi Java Applications

It is possible to annotate methods within a Java EE Application with '@CICSProgram'. Each such annotation causes a corresponding PROGRAM-resource to be created at the time the application is deployed within a CICS-Bundle. For OSGi Applications, ho...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add MQMONITOR name to CKTI messages

Messages issued by the CICS MQ tasks, CKTI specifically, to contain the MQMonitor name when the task is associated with an MQMonitor
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Make CICS time machine tool support CICS TS 5.1

CICS time machine is a useful and simple to use tool to change date & time within a CICS region.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Make job output switchable

Due to modern availability requirements of applications, more and more CICS regions have to run 24/7. The job output does dramatically increase and the amount of required JES spool space dramatically increases.Nearly every customer has this proble...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

SMSS regions to support the CMCI JVM server and therefore to support MFA and the aggregation function

Essentially we have standalone regions in environments that don't use CPSM. We have them setup as standalone regions and do connect to CPSM datasets to connect to CICS Explorer using DFHWBAAX version control. We need to do the transition and make ...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Occurrences of "false errors DFHAP1301".

Case TS008672927 has the details of the issue. A summary follows:There is an automation that cancels tasks that have reached established resource usage limits and, if they are accessing DB2, they suffer AD2R abend, however in some cases the DFHAP1...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

add PROTECT option on START CHANNEL similar to START

Need PROTECT option on START CHANNEL. Currently the only options available are TERMID, USERID and SYSID.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

LPARNAME in SMF110 records

We would like to generate the Mobile Workload Pricing Report; we are using SMF110 with CICSPA.But in SMF110 records we only have the SMFID field and not the LPARname (that we can find in SMF89 records)We have no common fields between the SMF110 an...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 9 Delivered

Add http OPTIONS support for resources

CICS currently supports the http OPTIONS method but only for the server itself where the path is an asterisk. Requesting http OPTIONS method support for resources.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

CICS Restart Lite

CICS should be able to be started quiesced, so that we can validate that all CICS resources are available prior to enabling traffic, and so that CICS can be started for emergency restart only, and then shutdown without taking on additional work. O...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered