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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

It should be possible to specify another RUNAWAY(ICVR) value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?).

It should be possible to have one ICVR value for when task is running on the QR TCB and other non-open TCBs, and anther value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?) This would enable us to allow larger ICVR values for tasks running on op...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add system rule in CICS policy for DSA usage

Monitor CICS DSA/EDSA/GDSA usage is critical. Service impact would be induced if CICS SOS reached. Suggest to add DSA/EDSA/GDSA threshold in CICS system policy rule for early detection
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

CICS policies - Suspend time policy rule for user task

CICS policies currently don't have an option to take action on an user task based on Suspend time. Even though RTA has this setup , cost of implementing RTA and its process is not as efficient as CICS policies. Hence Im making a request to IBM to ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

Adding SMF110 field with local time

Adding SMF110 new fields with local time for : START TIMESTAMP(TOD) STOP TIMESTAMP(TOD) for exemple START TIMESTAMP(TZ) and STOP TIMESTAMP(TZ) to have the real local time for start and end transaction, easier for analyzing performance of CICS tran...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Tolerate unknown elements for SOAP web services

One of our web service applications is getting a DFHPI1007 error calling a remote service from CICS (so CICS is the web service consumer). It turned out, that the server system added some optional elements to their web service response in their re...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SMF 110 Data to include Lock Details

We recently have had several problems related to LM waits and security delays but have not been able to use SMF data to identify the cause of the LM waits. If we're lucky enough to get a dump we might be able to see tasks waiting on a US lock, but...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enable zHyperwrite for VSAM and VSAM-RLS files in SIT

We're looking to implement zHyperwrite on our system, it's already active for DB2/MQ, and we will soon deliver the APAR (UJ92354) for vsam part. Following this documentation : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=performance-zhyperwrite It'...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS Policy: Add new System Rule to monitor LU62 connections.

CICS policies currently have the ability to monitor and perform action on MRO and IPIC connection status but lacking the ability to monitor LU62 connection which RTA has the capability of doing so. We have business application that still rely on L...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration