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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Adding more information to DFHSM0102 Storage Violation messages

When a storage violation occurs under CICS we get DFHSM0102 messages. For example:15.42.11 STC38008 *DFHSM0102 CICSXXXX A STORAGE VIOLATION (CODE X'0F0C') HAS BEEN DETECTED BY MODULE DFHSMAR.15.42.11 STC38008 +DFHME0116 CICSXXXX 643 643 (Module:DF...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

OPtion to drive additional security check when using EXEC CICS SPOOLWRITE

Provide an option that will drive an additional security check when a task uses EC SPPOLWRITE to submit a job with USER= specified on the JOB card. We want the end user running that task to also require READ access to SURROGAT resource for that US...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Metrics for requests arrival rates - MQ and HTTP

MQ and HTTP listeners need to provide metrics which inform users: 1. at what rate requests are being processed 2. whether they are arriving faster than they can be processed 3. if there is capacity to process more requests per second.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

IGYOS4090 I The "LIB" option specification is no longer required when compiling with COBOL Version 5 under CICS.

Using the CICS translator with Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® Version 5, message "IGYOS4090-I The "LIB" option specification is no longer required. COBOL library processing is always in effect. " is no received. This occurs with the CBLCARD option und...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Need way to manage TRANCLASS/PURGETHRESH processing

There should be a mechanism for managing the process of purging incoming transactions that are above the PURGETHRESH limit for a TRANCLASS that does not put the region at risk of being driven to MAXTASK. Either there should be a mechanism for thro...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Improved channel usage with RUN TRANSID

We would like improved channel/storage management when using the RUN TRANSID function, to reduce the complexity of solutions using RUN TRANSID, and remove the chance of storage leaks in long running tasks.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS timeout for web client commands

We use RTIMOUT to limit the amount of time a CICS web client process(WEB OPEN/SEND/RECEIVE/CLOSE) will wait for a response from a web service. According to doc this is our only choice. It would be more convenient to have the ability to specify a t...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow RDO definitions to refer to User Globals - in a dfhconfig/UserGlobal directory

Add a feature to allow User Globals Variables to be defined. At the moment there seems to be a small list of CICS-provided variables (&USERID, &APPLID, &SYSID, &JNAME, etc) for use with a subset(?) of RDO definitions. My suggestion...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Remove 24 kb limit on COMMAREA if using DFHTRANSACTION channel

If a DFHTRANSACTION channel is specified the COMMAREA size should not exceed 24 KB. If exceeding, the abend AXGE is issued (this has been introduced in apar PI76708). We ask to remove this restriction so we do not have to change the COMMAREA size ...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

cics link to Liberty JVM Server

To make I more easy integrating web technology to existing 3270 views it would be very nice to have the possiblility to exec cics link a Liberty JVM Server. This would give the possibility to refresh a browser view on clicking a 3270 button using ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 21 Delivered

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