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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar to avoid 31bit memory constrains

Rigth now, we can only run approx 6-7 JVMSERVERs due to 31bit memory constrains It would be really helpful to be able to Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar allowing to increase the amount of JVMSERVERs per CICS Region.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

show load module's compiled time using CEMT

show load module's compiled time using CEMT INQUIRE PROGRAM
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

CPSM batch utility (other than REXX) to perform CPSM API actions

There isn't any way to write our own application to perform CPSM API actions against CPSM objects. It is possible just using REXX run-time interface to write an API program, but there is a restriction in our environment that we are not able to use...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Prevent un-necessary Paging Delays when 'freed' CICS storage is reused.

CICS needs to be able to eliminate or reduce the overhead of paging that occurs for pages of private virtual storage that have been released (i.e. EXEC CICS FREEMAINed) to the CICS Storage Manager. Especially costly are Page-Ins from Page Datasets...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM Tasks - Open TCB

I would like the CPSM services run out of QR TCB. This enhancement will provide parallelism and will reduce CPU Usage and QR ratio would be higher.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow CICS resource security to also add a function component.

Currently, if a user is permitted to a specific resource, they can use that resource regardless of context. An example may be that a user is authorized to write to, or read from a transient data queue as it may form part of an application. I may w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer ability GLUE Disable / Enable or TRUE

To new copy a program; need to Disable and Enable in the new copy process; presently do it this way: CECI DISABLE PROG(U8D1XMEO) EXITALL <<--can't be done in Explorer CECI SET PROGRAM(U8D1XMEO) NEWCOPY <<-can be done in Explorer CECI...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

NEWCOPY solution for CICSPlex applications

CICS to provide a solution/utility to do NEWCOPY against a module across all the CICSPLex regions where the PGM exists.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Expose CPSM TDQGBL resource table through the CICS GraphQL API.

I would like to extract global transient data statistics from the CPSM TDQGBL resource table using the GraphQL API. In the past I have extracted these statistics using the CMCI API to query the CICSGlobalTDQueueStatistics resource. Having looked a...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Basic authentication for CICS as a web service requester

For CICS as a web service requester with basic authentication defined in URIMAP, we developed a Global exit to activate at exit point XWBAUTH and supply the userID and password through a sequential file set-up and accessible by security team.Since...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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