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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

The ability for CICS to capture data and graph into Grafana/Promethius.

We would like a similar capability that MQ supplies via GitHub that provides capabilities to format display data and allows you to graph it via Grafana/Promethius. This request would not be for a separate chargeable product but provided either in ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future 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 ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Policy system rule for address space CPU consumption

There is policy task rule for CPU time but client needs for the entire CICS address space. In a high workload environment, each individual task may consume an acceptable amount of CPU but all together, they may surpass what is considered acceptable.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

URIMAP and restfull api

When running RESTFUL API it will be nice if it is possible to run different tran names for the same URI based on the method GET/POST and so onso some users are only able to see datat but not update them we are using liberty in CICS
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 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...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

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