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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS IPIC use of Sysplex Distributor for High Availability and Workload Balancing purposes

We would like CICS to use Sysplex Distributor to balance workload from a requester region in a SYSPLEX to several server regions in another SYSPLEX over IPIC connections on every transaction execution. Our requirement is similar to RFE 24351 but a...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Comparison operator in Resource override file

Hi, The resource override yaml file has options to give the filters such as "is" "is not". It would be helpful to have options like "greater than", "less than", "greater than equal", "less than equal". These are helpful to filter resources. Ex: Se...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Cipher file name on com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile parm of Toggle file

Hi, Witht he CICS TS61, i see new toggle file parm com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile={true| false } This parm forces all the outbound calls to use the defaultciphers.xml. We already maintaining a custom cipher file for all inbouds as it is possib...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Prevent a performance impact while displaying Shared Temporary Storage using CPSM

If CPSM is used to display a very large Shared Temporary Storage , CICS scans the entire Shared Temporary Storage, causing a performance impact . My idea is to have CICS "throttle" or "segment" its scan , allowing other work to progress avoiding ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

JVMServer (OSGI) log file rotation policy for zFs output files

As our production Cics regions are restarted once a week, the JVMServer zFs output log files grow very large in size (upto 1 GB). It is quite a challenge to load such large files in editor/viewer and analyze or search for valid information. Logfil...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Non-display of IBM transactions/programs in CICS Explorer & RD/z (SHARE requirement SSCICS12003)

Provide a check box in CICS Explorer that would allow IBM supplied CICS transactions and programs to NOT show in the appropriate tabs. Looking at programs with CICS Explorer and RD/z shows a "wealth" of IBM provided transactions and programs (whic...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Origin Data to be passed for DTP and ASYNC flows

For transaction tracking purposes it is important that a transactions has some information about the parent transaction. The ADCB doesn't have information for DTP transactions and some of the ASYNC flows (e..g START with TERMID). The ORIGIN DATA i...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Wildcard in ADDTRAN TRANGRP

The ability to ADDTRAN generic TRANID to a CICSPLEX/SM TRANGRP rather than coding more individual TRANID.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Global Tranclass

Control the number of simultaneous executions of the same transaction, where the maximum allowed amount is defined, regardless of the number of CICS regions that execute this transaction.Such control aims to avoid resource contention due to the hi...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Allow dynamic close/open of MRO connections

If an MRO connection needs to be altered (e.g. change number of sessions) it is not possible to close and re-install the connection without stopping IRC. This is an unacceptable situation in a 24 x 7 production environment. MRO connections must be...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration