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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Frequency based thresholding for policy rules and events

Please provide user customizable mechanism to only trigger if the monitored event occurs more than N times in X minutes. This would be useful for thresholding within a single task and for thresholding across tasks.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

readonly access

Provide a mechanism for me to connect in a read-only way. This could be a separate connection definition or a toggle between view/edit. Regardless, it needs to be clear which mode is currently in use.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Select multiple, specific regions

Allow selecting multiple regions in the "CICS Explorer" view.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD Enhancement

An option PASSCHK=NOMFA to EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD command to bypass MFA DUO alerts
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

DFHCNV as RDO supported table.

Support of DFHCNV conversion translation table as RDO.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Recovering from abend AICA under OTE TCB

An application can establish an abend handler by EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND, which gets control if any abend occurs, e.g. with abend code AICA. If running under OTE, an abend AICA cannot be intercepted by a user abend handler, i.e. the transaction ter...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide version or timestamp to validate a program

There is a need to validate that a CICS application program hasn't changed when it moves through a CD pipeline. So some sort of version or timestamp is required.
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separately

Provide a mechanism to separate out the permission for performing a normal shutdown vs any other, such as immediate.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Include Summary Data in CICS requested dumps when more than one address space

The CICS documentation states that the CICS Dump exit will always produce a dump summary - see: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=dfhpd720-dump-summary-error-index but formatting a recent series of LG0772 dumps from a logger issue at 5...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

System Events for DSA/EDSA storage threshold

Provide a mechanism similar to the task threshold in system events, so that when the storage allocation exceeds a predefined threshold (in percentage), an event would be emitted.Checking the storage usage percentage could be done when a new extent...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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