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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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allocate commarea above the line when XCTL

Customer had SOS in below the 16M storage.The storage allocated below the line were commarea. Many transactions were waiting for file for a long time because of slow DASD response and transactions were building up. Most of transactions executed XC...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

z/OS Explorer to support Smartcard for client certificates

z/OS Explorer does not support smartcards.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Set a pacing value for ENF SIGNAL TYPE 71 notifications within a single LPAR

Our LPAR was kicked out of the SYSPLEX because the increase for additional SQA had exhausted the available CSA when numerous security updates were signaled. All of our CICS regions (approximately 180), executing under CICS TS 5.3, had the RACFSYNC...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

inactive TSQ deletion interval less than one hour

Ability to define the inactive TSQ deletion interval on the TSM resource less than one hour
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Modify EXEC CICS INQUIRE FEATURETOGGLE to show the source of the toggle

Update the INQUIRE FEATURETOGGLE to provide information on where the toggle value was specified. It should also indicate default values. Perhaps something like PATH(xxxxxx).
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Logmessages if maxtask or classmaxtask was reached (GSE Requirement GGCIC07005)

DFH - messages if the MAXTASK or CLASSMAXTASK condition(s) was reached. BUSVAL : 5INVVAL : 5ENDVAL : 5GROVAL : 5SYSVAL : 5KEYWORDS : UGVOTES : +5=5 +4=3 +3=3 +2=6 +1=3 0=1 -1=2 -3=2 -5=1 Abstain=1 Priority=
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Support Symbolics in CICS File Definition DSNAME

Allow the use of symbolics (similar to JCL symbolics) in the DSNAME of aCICS File Definition (or BDAM FCT entry), to be resolved either at installtime or open time according to installation-supplied substitution strings.Should also include a speci...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

typing multiple characters in the "CICS Explorer" view

Allow typing multiple characters in the "CICS Explorer" view to quickly jump to a particular region
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Create a CEMT SET() PHASEIN type command for JAVA bundles.

The versioning and alias processing options that are presently available for deploying new JAVA bundles in CICS require changes to the pre-existing CICS RDO definitions, this is not something that is desired when promoting a new version of a JAVA ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

CICS Unix created files - control permissions and owner allocation

Allow the configuration of CICS to include the ability to control the Unix file permissions, owner, and file size before the file allocation occurs.In our system, the CICS region ID and users are in a separate RACF security group. Since the CICS s...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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