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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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COMMAREA's transported as CHANNELS

This stems from discussions at the CAF on the back of AXGE abends and dfhtransaction - and in effect a need to protect CICS legacy applications from any new or extended use of the dfhtransaction channel. Allow for COMMAREA's which are greater than...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Implement EXEC CICS INQUIRE POLICY SPI command

A new SPI INQUIRE POLICY command needs to be added in order to allow running through the policy definitions to collect statisistical usage information. Without an INQUIRE START/NEXT/END process, the user must know exactly which policies they are l...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Use new START TASK NEWREQ when starting tasks out of listeners (MQMONITORs, SOCKETs, etc.)

Add a new option when creating listener tasks ([Deleted] as MQMONITORs or IP SOCKET listeners) to allow sites to spawn work independently from the listener task. See the RFE on providing a NEWREQ option to EXEC CICS START TRANID() NEWREQ.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Report detailed target AOR health to MVS WLM using IWM4HLTH

Looking for an alternative to having to use "fat" TORs to receive inbound web requests and then dynamically route business logic to target AORs. Problem:A CICSplex topology typically consists of TORs and AORs . The TORs and AORs are used to separa...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CICS DFHEIENT R13 as CODEREG

When coding an assembler command level CICS program, although there is nothing stop a programmer from coding R13 as a, or one of the, CODEREG registers (unless perhaps using the LEASM option). However, using R13 as a CODEREG is not valid, as the p...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

DFHWS2LS requires an exclusive lock on the partitioned data set to which it writes.

Currently DFHWS2LS requires an exclusive lock to the PDS to which it writes the language structure.If the lock is not available DFHWS2LS will fail with.DFHPI9523E An unexpected error occurred whilst processing file file.Customer has lots of web se...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

The CICS Web services Assistants only support applications with EBCDIC interfaces.

CICS Web services internationalizationMore and more customers are converting their CICS (and other) applications to UTF-16. This is fully supported by DB2 and HLL's like COBOL and PLI. Unfortunately it is not supported for CICS Webservices (Assist...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

System Policy for DBCTL Connection Status

System Policy rule to detect when a DBCTL connection is not acquired
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS GLOBAL ENQUEUE / DEQUEUE issue related to use of RNL

Allow the customer to control whether the CICS GLOBAL ENQ/DEQ issues the ENQ/DEQwith RNL=NO or RNL=YES.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Change GETMAIN for STORAGE_CLASS(TEMPSTG) to use 31 bit DSA

CICS/TS (release 4.2 in our case) go SOS below the line because old code in storage manager is issuing GETMAINs for TEMPSTG class in 24bit DSA.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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