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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Permit cics mro session definition to have IOAREALEN > 32767, and/or, let session keep and reuse its HWM length TIOA

Issue: many additional cics freemains and getmains for mro session TIOAs are occurring, and burning cpu, after installing CICS TS 4.2. Reason: new CICS TS 4.2 code is appending an extra 600 bytes, presumably to track hops between regions, to many ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE USERID

Can I have an EXEC CICS INQUIRE USERID function please?I simply want to get a list of users who are currently logged on to a CICS region.... I'm not interested in any attributes about the user (though I guess it might be nice if there was a way to...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CPSM API: A new query function to identify available CMAS's

The CPSM API should support a new query function that could be called prior to any CONNECT operation. This query would scan and locate all active ESSS's on the local LPAR via the z/OS subsystem chain, extracting from each ESSS information about al...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

API for accessing CFDT's from non-CICS workloads.

Please provide an API to allow non-CICS workloads to access Coupling Facility Data Tables (CFDT).
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Threadsafe START and CANCEL commands

START and CANCEL commands are not threadsafe, and if run under OTE, would result in TCB switching to take place whenever these commands are encountered. These switches adversely effect the performance of the application.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS EXPLORER Colouring background of views

As discussed in several talks with IBM , we would like to have the CICS Explorer views backgrounds coloured in the following manner : Give each view of the CICS Explorer its own Background Colour depending on its function : CICS Operation function...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CPSM: Perioddef should include selection of weekdays

When defining a CPSM perioddef for RTA- or WLM-def. in WUI or in Batch, it would be very helpful, to have the possibility of selecting not only the time from/to but also the days from monday to sunday. Especially on saturday and sunday we don't wa...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

flood controls for policy rules and events

Provide a user customizable mechanism to control floods of triggered policy rules and events.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

compare resources

Provide a mechanism to compare multiple resources and highlight the differences. It would be very useful to be able to easily compare multiple different resources between the two regions.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Stop doing pointless updates to DFHRSTAT in cpsm non-target cics regions

CPSM code should check to see if a cics region is defined as a wlm target region. If it is NOT a wlm Target region, cpsm should override (to 0) any coded, or default, UPDATE RS parm value to avoid updating DFHRSTAT with info that will never be uti...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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