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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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JVM Server Kategory - Dynamic Deployment

At the moment I am trying several things in JAVA with Cics 5.1 and applications and there is one thing more and more I don't like.<br /><br />For every bundle I have to define a JVM server where it runs on. I think this is not realy fl...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Controlling CICS detailed internal tracing from a line mode transaction such as CEMT

The facility to control the SPCTR STNTR SYSTR USERTR trace settings through a line mode command such as CEMT S INTTRACE (or similar).Optionally also the trace settings for each domain setting.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 10 Delivered

Improve CWS Statistics

TCPIPService statistics has a field called SOR_TRANS_ATTACHED, which has a description of 'The number of transactions attached by this TCP/IP Service'. The name and description of this field was perhaps correct many years ago when CWS attached one...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CKTI doesn not restart on a MQ 2345 and 2373 error

When the CKTI looses the MQ Connection because of a MQ structure loss, it does not reconnect when the MQ structure is available again.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS OSCORE SMF record

State Street Corporation is interested in an additional statistic; that of the largest available low Dynamic Storage Area. We, and other CICS shops, are still running legacy CICS programs that consume a significant amount of DSA. This factor requi...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enhance AUXTRSW SIT Parm to off ALL option (like AUXTRSW)

The Dump Dataset Switch SIT Parm currently only offers NO and NEXT as options for no switching or a single switch of the datasets. No further switches will occur without a subsequent CEMT/EXEC CICS SET DUMPDS SWITCH (such as via automation or syst...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CIPHERs for OutBound Web Services

Where CICS is acting as a web service provider (i.e. InBound CICS Web Services) we can specify a range of ciphers in a TCPIPSERVICE definition which gives us some flexibility over the range of ciphers that we will support. However, the same flexib...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Run transaction COWC under a CICS system userid instead of the userid of an application transaction.

The COWC transaction (WLM MAS List Garbage Collector)is being started by some CPSM MAS Agent code under the control of a business transaction. As such, CICS is attempting to attach it with the userid of the business transaction and encounters a se...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

DFH$MOLS sample for printing monitoring data does not break out specific RMI times

Since CICS TS v5.1 the MCT TYPE=INITIAL uses the default value of RMI=YES for the MCT table, however the existing sample DFH$MOLS only prints the total RMI elapsed time and count and the total RMI suspend time and count. The DFHMNPDA sample that p...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Please provide in Explorer the ability to see if a task has an active DB2 thread

We have been encouraging our operations staff to use Explorer as their primary CICS monitoring and management tool. Generally, they have taken to it and prefer it over the CPSM WUI. One function they have requested and specified as being very impo...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered