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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Mark CICS as unhealthy from the CPSM WLM point of view, if RM like e.g. DB2 is not available, but is essential for most trans

If the application ( e.g. described by a trangroup, by the whole WLM specification ) in a CICS region has a dependency on WMQ, IMS or DB2 and the connection to these resources managers is down, CICSPlex SM should mark these regions as unhealthy un...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Option to populate PA Group Definitions from CICSPlex SM groups

CICS PA should have a mechanism to obtain the region ids that are in CICSPlex groups and populate them into CICS PA's Group definitions (Option 1.3 or 6.2). Currently customers have to manually extract the regions ids from the CICSPlex groups and ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Timeout ill-behaved terminals to avoid tasks hanging CICS

CEGN hangs forever after RACF terminal timeout For the last 8 1/2 years, customer has been running with a USERMOD (V4.1 version ANCEGN4) to handle a situation where badly-behaved customer terminals (over which customer has no contol) cause a task ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Locks missing from "DFH" CSD groups

As discussed in ETR Record 18196,999,616. There are six CICS supplied DFH-prefixed groups in CICS TS 320 for which there is no lock record:DFH$SOT DFHCBTS DFHDCTG DFHIPECI DFHRP DFHRPCF There are four CICS supplied DFH-prefixed groups in CICS TS 4...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS Environment Protection

As previously discussed, we're not able to fully exploit CICS/CPSM dynamic routing capabilities because of one fundamental flaw (as we see it): CICS/CPSM will continue to commit workload to AORs whilst all appears well - sessions are free; CICS re...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Reclaim orphaned storage which was GETMAINed SHARED by CEDF

Reclaim orphaned storage which was GETMAINed SHARED by CEDF :-When Customer gracefully exited CEDF via PF3, the CDSA storage would be freed. Otherwise, those storage elements simply accumulated. Therefore, those accumulated CDSA storage won't be r...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

The CICS Explorer should support the management of CICSPlex.

The CICS Explorer should support the management of CICSPlex. For example, it can create a new CICSPlex.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

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

When a tran abends in a region, CPSM should not route any tran of the same WLM tran group to this target region

Description: FI had observed that following an abend of a transaction in a CICS region, CPSM was still routing transactions with different ids to the CICS region. CPSM currently allows the 'Acceptable level of abend probability' and the 'Acceptabl...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM API Threadsafe

CPSM API to made threadsafe, in line with IBM recommendation for customers to write applications using threadsafe techniques.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

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