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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Quiesce CICS before shutdown

CICS no longer quiesces TCPIPServices as part of SHUTDOWN, which caused a large number of connected clients to terminate when CICS was shutdown. For this RFE we are asking for a more graceful shutdown option.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enhance CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks

Enhance the CMAS and ESSS maintenance level checks to not be limited to checking only when ESSS is not already running. This would provide a sanity check with applying maintenance that requires ESSS to be terminated and restarted.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Data of DFHPI0715 message are not correct

When CEMT P PIPE SCAN command ends, the following message is issued: DFHPI0715 I 05/23/2018 15:20:26 CICSPA01 CHGMAN PIPELINE PIPEPROH explicit scan has completed. Number of wsbind files found in the WSDIR directory: 002493. Number of WEBSERVICEs ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions

Currently the CICS SIT parms (for combined, JCL, SYSIN etc) can only be displayed in an Attribute view for a single CICS region. We would like the ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions similar to the way other Region Attributes c...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Webservice should fail on missing required field

Webservice should reject the request if a field, which is marked as required, is not specified on the request.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

New action type for CICS policies

Requesting a new action type for CICS policies: The ability to fail a CICS API request with a RESP/RESP2 code that indicates "REQUEST DENIED BY POLICY"
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM WLM Enhancement

Customer needs an enhancement to the CPSM WLM Algorithm in order to improve the workload among the targets. The customer has a single CICSPlex running across two Sysplexes. The environment is large enough that it not possible to merge the existing...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Uncaptured wait time for CICS webservices

We are seeing a high uncaptured wait time for webservice attach tasks.This time should be captured and recorded in the CICS SMF 110 Performance class record. An auxtrace has shown that the uncaptured time is spent suspended waiting for resource 'R...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow non-SMS datasets in a LIBRARY definiton

Relax the restriction that non-SMS datasets must only be specified via DFHRPL, and hence allow non-SMS datasets to be used in a LIBRARY definition.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration