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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CPSM should allow multiple events to be named in a WLMSPEC and in a TRANGRP

Description: Dave Williams and Mayur Raya did take a look at the batchrep dump of the WLM definitions and, as discussed during today's call, we noticed that although two RTADEFs had been defined (one called MAKESICK and the other called DB2DEFCO),...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Update CICS signon program to allow for more than 246 characters so it can display IRS required Warning Banners.

The IRS PUB 1075 regulatory requirements requires a business use statement or warning banner for systems that hold Federal Taxpayer Information (FTI). Here is the warning banner suggestion. https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/warning-banner-mus...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Create a CICS CBL statement to indicate a COBOL program is threadsafe

Create a CBL statement that can be included in the COBOL source program that indicates the program is threadsafe. At compile/linked time the compiler/linkeditor should detect this CBL statement and indicate that the load module is threadsafe. If r...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

WAET1111-1460 CICS Ability to dynamically scale

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bill.MitlehnerSubmitters Company: Aetna PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: WAET1111-1460 CICS Ability to dynamically scaleHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: WebSphereCurrent Status: RecognizedClosed Status: ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add Trace Entries to the callable interface routine DFHNCTR

Reason: A use has a batch exit program that uses DFHNCTR for a named counter server function. This exit has worked fine under 3.2 for years. Now when moving to 4.2 the first calls get "Server not found RC 304". After re-cycling the batch job it wo...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics dosn't provide chronological serialization sysplex wide

Cics cannot guarantee chronological ENQ acquisition sysplex wide ENQs, so there isn't any way to serialize in chronological ENQs order sysplex wide .
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for Chunked Transfer Encoding for Web Services Responses.

For HTTP 1.1 clients CICS as a service provider should honor the chunked transfer encoding HTTP header when sending the response. For many clients accepting chunked transfers is optimal rather than handling a response sent with a content-length.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS ECI Transactions Delayed by RACF exclusive ENQ.

In a 24/7 Electronic Funds processing environment, CICS transaction processing should not be delayed when the RACF database is being backed up (IRRUT200).
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update IBM z/OS CICS related product message manuals to include WTO route and descriptor code information.

In order to provide proactive incident notifications, enable automatic ticket creation and ensure either a human or automated operator is aware of "actionable" z/OS CICS related product events, we need to ensure that all product provided actionabl...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

OTE long running transactions do not get clocks reset at MNFREQ intervals

The customer is migrating to CICS TS 3.2 where the MQ BRIDGE is part of CICS. The MQ THREADS are running on L8 TCB's. The customer has MNFREQ set to the default 15 minutes, but his CPU TIME for the transactions are never getting reset. This causes...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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