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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Allow concurrent signon by a user into CICS CPSM

Please Modify CPSM to allow a User ID to be be concurrently Signed on Multiple times. Currently a person cannot be signed on to the CPSM WUI (Web User Interface) and CICS explorer at the same time.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

combine DISCARD function to provide delete (DISABLE/DISCARD) or reinstall (DISABLE/DISCARD/INSTALL)

combine the discard function with activities that are usually performed together with it, e.g. DISABLE/DISCARD for faster deletion or even allow reinstall option (DISABLE/DISCARD/INSTALL) from a definition view
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Allow custom DFHAPPL length

DFHAPPL is a unique EMP in that it survives a DELIVER, which is important to us because we use DBCTL and some DBCTL functions invoke a DELIVER EMP (I assume to allow separate stats per PSB). We would like to use DFHAPPL because of this ability but...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Separate Cics Security Definition for Platform and Application

At the Moment the Security function CLOUD.DEF includes: 1) APPLDEF - Create, display, and maintain application definitions in platforms.2) PLATDEF - Create, display, and maintain platform definitions. We need to separate both things, because we wa...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need MQ shared message consumption to be responsive to CICSplex workload balancing signals

We have two MQ application patterns which are unresponsive to workload balancing. Pattern 1 An application 1) reads a message from a shared MQ queue, 2) starts a new CICS transaction to process the message, and 3) return to step 1. The application...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICSplex Systems Management (CPSM) needs to respond better to LPAR workload

Need a new capability in CPSM to allow customers to manage WLM importance 1 workloads to a percentage of the LPAR capacity. Importance 1 workloads, such as CICS, perform best when they represent less than 95% of the workload on an LPAR. In our cas...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Specify TLS supported at URIMAP level

Able to override MINTLSLEVEL at SIT level (CICS default) with a new MINTLSLEVEL at lower URIMAP level.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic mechanism to get programs started when any CICS region initializes

We would like a feature that could run a program in any CICS region during initialization. This could be implemented such that an application makes a request to a CICS service to define a program and library and they would be started every time CI...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Introduce TCP/IP Ping capability into CICS API

If a task running in CICS attempts to connect to a server over TCP/IP, for example using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN, this will fail quickly if the target system is reachable but there is no listener on the target port or any handshake fails. However, if t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

An option not to reset counts on USS stats records

In some of our regions we use DADS to open/close files in our regions. This can happen several times a day. Each time a file is closed a USS record is written to SMF and the count is reset to 0. Therefore, we have loads of USS records for files an...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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