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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separatelyey

The customer would like the ability to differentiate between the commands CEMT PERF SHUT versus CEMT PERF SHUT IMMED . He would like to allow some users access to the normal shutdown command of CEMT PERF SHUT, but not allow those same users access...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Expand the data content of the CICS DLA along with the ability to filter unwanted data.

The CICS DLA currently collects data for 17 resources and only the NAME and LABEL field for each resource. In order to support the change history use case in TADDM, all 35 or so classes needed to be collected along with the attributes of each (min...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

WLM performance blocks are not freed when CICS maxtask is reduced dynamically

WLM performance blocks are not freed when CICS maxtask is reduced dynamically resulting in WLM address space having higher CPU utilization until CICS is recycled with a lower initial MXT value.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHJUP is not able to provide VB dataset copying logstream

The format of the MVS logger records is not in the format a program like DFSORT can manage. This is a restriction between logger and DFSORT. Either DFSORT cannot read logstreams directly or the records retrieved via the subsys parm of DFHJUP are n...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Remove restrictions on the number of FEPI targets and FEPI nodes that can be defined in a FEPI Pool through BAS.

In the current CPSM design, FEPI Pool resources defined with BAS are limited to 128 FEPI nodes and 32 FEPI targets. This is due to the size of the NODELIST and TARGETLIST fields in the FEPOODEF resource table, as well as other restrictions. CICS o...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Make EXEC CICS command WAIT, POST and CANCEL ThreadsafeC

Customer's application is having to switch back to the CICS QR TCB because the following EC commands are not running in a ThreadSafe mode within the CICS FOR: WaitPostCancel
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for a HWM while using AUTODST to avoid coding an assembler exit CEECSTX

Customer uses use a lot of different CEEUOPT in order to satisfy the LE storage settings. This CEEUOPT are to static so we want to use the AUTODST option. Unfortunally there is no limit (HWM highWaterMark) for the AUTODST so it becomes a bit diffc...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Restrict CICSVAR usage

Please provide a means of restricting CICSVAR usage in the runtime environment so that PROGRAM RDO resource attributes can not be overridden by the application program.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS as a HTTP client, how to use one fixed logical customized IP address for outbound?

The customer has a CICS region acting as a "HTTP client ". It is working as a client and it is doing a HTTP request to an external server. Customer would like a way to access and customize the origin IP address within CICS (acting as client) and s...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

File backout should complete before PLT access

We have a problem with the way in which CICS TS handles the backout of 'in flight' units of work. Our startup PLT contains code that updates a number of VSAM files, this s essential to set up the application subsystem before any user initiated wor...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration