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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS - Change MCT parameters with online command

Good afternoon, Please check the possibility of chaning the MCT parameter via online command, in flight, without the necessary of stop/start of CICS that is currently needly.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Future consideration

Remove obsolete CMAS from CICSPlex

Remove obsolete CMAS from storage in CICSPlex scope.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 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 ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Newcopy of Liberty Application in CICS

In CICS V5.3. it is possible to phasein a OSGI bundle A Liberty application can't be phasein, that is proberly because the application need to be stopped and restarted to do the operation. It would be nice to have a newcopy function for this. beca...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for DB2Entries in CICS Bundles

We are able to create Transactions in our cics bundle but because we always create a db2entry together with the transcation we can't really use cics bundles to define our application because we can't create db2entries in the cics bundle
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Support DFHAP1900 messages at PLT time

The SPI audit message DFHAP1900 is currently not supported until after CICS startup is complete (when the DFHSI1517 Control is being given to CICS message is written). Consequently, SPI commands issued by startup PLT programs (running under the CP...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to XCF buffer processing

Enhance XCF Buffer processing used by DFHIRP for inter-region communication. At present it is possible to exhaust the pool of XCF buffers leading to recursive SVC dumps in DFHIRP causing broad system impact. The ability to specify the size of the ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CPSM PROGRAM Table should provide a counter for remote program call stats.

Statistics for use of remote programs is not currently available. Such a statistic would be helpful to have and provide visibility. Suggest that the could be held in the CPSM PROGRAM Table as a new field.Or perhaps a new REMPROG table as for REMFI...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration