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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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    CICS policies - Suspend time policy rule for user task

    CICS policies currently don't have an option to take action on an user task based on Suspend time. Even though RTA has this setup , cost of implementing RTA and its process is not as efficient as CICS policies. Hence Im making a request to IBM to ...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

    Suppress specific log messages in Liberty

    With JVM server profile option "LOG_LEVEL", I can control the level of messages, that will be written to Liberty "messages.log" and dfhjvmlog. For example "LOG_LEVEL=WARNING" supresses all Info-messages. We want to suppress only specific messages,...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Detecting a Shipped Terminal created by CRTE

    We need to detect if a shipped terminal corresponds to an active CRTE session
    almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

    Request that CICS added transaction tracking /origin data for web services routed by CICS RZ domain request streams processin

    The explanation is that a new point of origin is created in the AOR when a web service pipeline handler transaction is routed over an MRO connection. as shown in this link : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.6?topic=data-origin-characteristics...
    about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Tolerate unknown elements for SOAP web services

    One of our web service applications is getting a DFHPI1007 error calling a remote service from CICS (so CICS is the web service consumer). It turned out, that the server system added some optional elements to their web service response in their re...
    about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

    As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between upda...
    about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    SMF110 - Log DFHDS0102 Percentage Ratios to SMF; both QR/CPU ratio; Dispatch Interval ratio

    Log to SMF110; Ratios for: DFHDS0102 I 09/14/2025 07:04:40 CICSQCPR QR TCB CPU / dispatch ratio: nn.nn%. QR TCB dispatch / interval ratio: nn.nn% This is for consistancy rather than manually calculating. Performance consistancy with statistics rep...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

    Support OTel Tracing for DTP over MRO

    We require the intercept and propagation of OTel trace spans for DTP over MRO where a trace parent is present.
    8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Have the ability to control the maximum number of concurrent KAFKA messages to be processed

    We have a microservice running in CICS Liberty which is listening on a Kafka topic. After an outage, 100s of Kafka messages are flooding into CICS to be processed at the same time. This has the potential to cause all sort of issues for this servic...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

    CICS should execute the EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO command under the EXECKEY of requesting program to honor CICS storage protection.

    Currently when a USERKEY task executes an EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO if the receiving data area is smaller than the container data the program creates a storage violation. Because CICS processes the GET CONTAINER command on behalf of the task, a...
    almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

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