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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Multiple CPSM ESSS Subsystems on one LPAR

2 separate CICSPlexes are connected to separate CMAS on the same LPAR. Each CICSPlex and CMAS respresents a separate Environment such as development and maintenance Environment. Each CMAS should have his own ESSS Subsystem on the same LPAR. So the...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

New Event Processing - System Event - Terminal monitoring

EP System Event for Terminals
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

CICS/TS - USS enhancements

In order to keep the USS files and programs synchronized with the LOAD LIBRARIES (LPA etc.) we currently have these options:1. Separate SMP/E environment for each stage (development, system test etc.). This requires PTFs to be applied for each sta...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

CICS manual states that ASKTIME function cannot be used with NUMPROC(PFD) compiler option.This is because ASKTIME sets a F as final byte in signed EIBTIME, instead of a correct C. PMR and RFE to the CICS team, to get a fix for this are rejected, a...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Provide highly efficient access to transaction cpu/specialty processor accumulated timings

Having requested information pertaining to specific fields found to contain accumulated cpu and specialty processor timings in the DFHTASN control block, I was informed that a detailed explanation of the management of these timings would not be fo...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS 5.* (DFHMEU)

CICS TS 5.* Message Editing utility (DFHMEU)
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Bedre soap fault message

we are running with z/os sysplex distributor in front of CICS webservice so we have a lot of CICS that take webservice request. when we are getting a 4038 error from a webservice program on cics we are getting this soap fault<ERROR_MESSAGE> ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Selective suppression of dumps based on PSW location

Customers often suppress AP0001 abends in their System Dump code table because, by and large, they are for ASRA, AKEA, S0C4 or S0C1 in application programs. Unfortunately that also suppresses these dumps when they occur in DFH* modules. So, when r...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHPI0508 possible if all sessions to remote system are in use. CICS does not queue request.

This RFE being submitted as a result of investigative APAR PH20753 being closed. The text of that APAR was: You experience DFHPI0508 errors when trying to run a tran involving RequestStreams that need to route over to another system. CICS will try...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Perspective Import/Export

Ability to Import/Export Individual CICS Explorer (installation defined) Perspectives
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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