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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Transaction Server 5.4 Documentation for Async Service Domain

Fault analysis software like SmartScope, AbendAid and Fault Analyzer require an understanding of the various control block, anchors and domains when post processing system failures (SVC Dumps). APIs and SPIs are not available when analyzing SVC Du...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SSL(ATTLSAWARE) support for PROTOCOL(IPIC) in TCPIPSERVICE

IPIC Connections to communicate IIB for z/OS and CICS in different sysplexes, require secured SSL connections if the IPCONN USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) parameter is specified for the IPCONN resources.AT-TLS can save CPU, but SSL(ATTLSAWARE) for TCPIPSERVIC...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS Policy to restat MQMONITOR if it abends/fails

This is in continuation for RFE 136876.Like to request to enhance CICS System policies to monitor MQMONITOR status and set it to STARTED if it abends/fails.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Add Client IP address message insert to DFHWB0103

Similar to DFHWB0100 and DFHWB0101, issues resulting in DFHWB0103 can be diagnosed more quickly if the client IP address was output as a message insert.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

VSAM CLOSE TYPE=T FLUSH

Allow CLOSE TYPE=T to be issued for a VSAM file so that the HURBA is externalized to the VSAM catalog. Originally entered as SHARE requirement SSCICS0911 in 2009.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improving the way CICS uses the global enqueues for ENQModels

We tried to implement an ENQ global (using ENQModel) but find out the response time for all the transactions using it increases significantly. IBM support told us the code managing this resource has a delay of 100 milliseconds between calls to che...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS as CICS Explorer Server

CICS being a Top Tier Web Server; we would like to utilize CICS as the WEB Server to Deploy the CICS Explorer Product as the WebStart implementation. This will consolidate the support of CICS Explorer within the CICS Technical Support area; versio...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

64 bit COBOL for CICS

We would like z/OS CICS Transaction Server to support 64 bit COBOL applications. My understanding is that a 64 bit COBOL compiler is currently not available. But hopefully this RFE will expedite the process of getting all the pieces in place so th...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 10 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for transaction rate falls to zero and remains at zero

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for recursive S0C* abends

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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