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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Enhancing Health Checker for Max Tasks (MXT)

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. It would be better if it can respond when a region is approaching MXT from say 75% then 80%...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for Short-on-Storage (SOS) above or below the line

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

Resource Sensitive TCLASS

Allow a tclass to be defined by its performance characteristics instead of a pure number, for example, maxstorage or maxcpu. This will simplify the management of tclasses by making them self leveling. Today if we set a tclass at 10 to limit storag...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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

To replace the SNA connections to IPIC with external companies (different sysplexes) and secure them, we need to implement SSL.AT-TLS can save CPU, but SSL(ATTLSWARE) for TCPIPSERVICE is only available to PROTOCOL(HTTP).We request to provide SSL(A...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

The version number of the BAS resource definition is currently limited to 15

The version number of the BAS resource definition is currently limited to 15. Customer asked to increase this limit.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future 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

CRTE to re-drive logon Screen

When we have SEC=YES and XTRAN=YES in CICS regions, when we jump between regions using CRTE, CICS doesn't give a logon screen but it expects us to use CESN manually and long-on. It would be helpful if CICS can drive the logon screen if it expects ...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Docu: username / password restrictions CICS Websupport

„CICS Web Support“ expects a special CCSID for username / password whenusing „EXEC CICS WEB CONVERSE“. We came accross it, when testing with BASIC AUTH and a username including an@-character (e.g. user@xxx.de). When reading mulitple documentations...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

CICS Handling of bad HTTP requests

Hello IBM Support, Security requirements use vulnerability scanners to 'ping' CICS, and these lead to false positives. A scanner may produce an error, that's not really an error...can CICS be enhanced to handle http errors better? Thank youJohn Ca...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Balancing workloads for machines with a different physical capabilities

In our situation, we have two production LPARs, each one is on a different MF. Each TOR dynamically routes all transactions to all AORs (on both LPARs) We would really like to be able to control the workload distribution between the LPARs. Since t...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration