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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Enhance the CICS design to access SMSVSAM in parallel.

We'd like to propose the following CICS design changes:1) Have a completely separate TCB or a pool of TCBs to process only the QUIESCE and UNQUIESCE SEND and RECEIVE elements. This TCB or pool of TCBs should never be used for OPEN and CLOSE reques...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS System Policy for Extra Partition TDQ WRITE output, to detect large output TDQ; there is one at Task Level

We have several output TDQ's that get filled with Millions of TDQ Writes; fills up JES Spool; get paged to Close/Open TDQ to SPOOL off. We have PLT process to do this at Midnight; but now they are filling at arbitrary times; we get paged with aler...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

IPCS to format the active HANDLE's for a task

Right now IPCS only shows the HTB control blocks. It would be nice if IPCS could format the control blocks into a table showing which handles are active
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Implement CEDA CHECK (e.g. for LIST) to ensure CICS region starts properly

Implement the CEDA CHECK option in CICS Explorer (see http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.resourcedefinition.doc/ceda/commands/dfha4_check.html) to allow for example checking LISTs for consistency
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer view "CMAS Details" needs extending

CICS Explorer view "CMAS Details" only shows a single CMAS based on which one is selected in the CMAS Explorer view. Having to select each CMAS in turn to view or perform actions against is time consuming.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Threadsafe for function shipping over MRO

We are looking to use threadsafe to improve the throughput in our CICS regions. We keep coming to the need to have function shipping threadsafe using MRO (XM/XCF). We have tested using IPCONN, as recommended, and find that the resource usage is un...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Verify the Startup of a CKTI Message

It would be nice that there was a Message displayed at CICS Initialization ,using MQONN, indicating the CKTI transaction/s successfully connected or failed to MQ at CICS Initialization time.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Docker Container in Cics

After the last CAF I have thaught a while about running multiple images/Platforms in a Cics Region. Now I think the only good solution for this, also what would bring multiple value to cics would be, to be able to run docker images in cics. And wi...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CREATE A NEW CPSM USERID/SIGNON AFFINITY TYPE.

We found that affinity USERID/SIGNON in a trangroup has a limitation: if an AOR fails and has to be restarted, this type of affinity will not allow the signed on user to route another transaction to the this AOR.'EYUWR003W -The affinity AOR APPLID...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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