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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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...
almost 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...
almost 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 ...
almost 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...
almost 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...
almost 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...
almost 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...
almost 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.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Requester Pipelines forced to code Handler program to alter Container data

Customer is requesting CICS Web Services to be more flexible in allowing applications to alter the contents of the containers DFHPIPM initializes at the start of a Pipeline. The current design validly places this ability into the system programmer...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS TECHNIQUE TO SEND HTTP OUTBOUND USING THE SPECIFIC LOGICAL IP ADDRESS.

The customer has a CICSTS32 acting as an " HTTP client " and using WEB OPEN API. So cics is working as a client doing a HTTP request toan external server . For that cics system uses the default IP address of the stack which is a phisical IP addres...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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