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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Provide ability to 'smartly' purge transactions performing 'must complete' activity

Customer has a large environment with many thousands of DB2 transactions per minute, and relies upon vendor monitoring software to effectively handle the purging of transactions that exceed criteria (TMON in this case, but this would apply to Omeg...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Allow CICS to share SSL Keyrings even if they run under different userIDs

Hi, Currently a CICS region can only use the SSL keyring that is owned by the region owner ID. We can't share same keyring between multiple regions if they run under different owner IDs. With the increase in number of CICS regions, its becoming ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Real-time display of QR TCB usage and CPU/DISP ratio

Knowledge Center states the following: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/tuning/dfht3c0020.html "To calculate the approximate time since CICS statistics were last reset, add the values of "Accum time in MVS™ wait" and "Ac...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Purge CDBT txn

System: CDBT txnActor: Purge CDBT Ability to "PURGE" CDBT txn. Situation arises when IMS is failing and several CICS regions simultaneously issue CDBC DIS IMM to "failing" IMS.IMS appears to only handle a set number DISCONNECTS from CICS. This res...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

SSL Certificate expiration advanced warning in CICS

When an SSL certificate used in a CICS region expires, it can take time and sometimes a region cycle or other outage to update it. There is currently no warning message in CICS that an SSL certificate is about to expire.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Prevent DFHSI1517 Control is given to CICS message until after the Java Applications are actually ready for work

Given the problem described in RFE 108941, we additionally need CICS startup to prevent the "Control is Given to CICS" message until after all the Java Bundle Installation processing has completed (successfully or not). WLM Health is an insufficie...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow keystore with safkeyringhw and JCECCARACFKS

When trying to configure the WUI CMCI JVM in our recently upgraded CTS 6.1 sandpit WUI, a problem was identified to do with the configuration of the keystore which uses crypto hardware. Each time the WUI restarted it would change safkeyringhw to s...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

jsonnonjavaprovider & Remote Tranid

It would be interesting to have the same behaviour when we use NOSOAP webservice with Configfile jsonnonjavaprovider, as the one we have when we use jsonjavaprovider or when we use SOAP webservices. When we use nonjava (jsonnonjavaprovider), CPSM ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Timestamp for each last TCLASS Max - like Time Last MAX Task reached.

Have time stamp for Time Last TClass Max hit, like timestamp for when Last Max Task hit. This timestamp would be for each individual TClass. This would aid in monitoring region when under high volume and review of performance; Identifying TClass M...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Enhance EXPIRY processing TS-queues performance

You can use a TSMODEL to set an EXPIRY on a TS-queue.If you install such a TSMODEL in CICS, then CICS will initiate a SCAN process, that will scan main/auxilary and CF-TS-Pools for queues that has expired.This scan process will run in all cics reg...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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