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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Limit the size of AIDs chain for Transid

This is a evolution of RFE 98067, in which the customer asked to be able to set a limitation for new starts of transactions when the number of AIDs in a CICS region reached to this limit. Today, however, the customer has "evolved" this issue furth...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

A Global User Exit for Program Check Recovery

Can we have a Global User Exit which is driven for program checks in a CICS region, similar to the PROGRAM_CHECK_RECOVERY mechanism which LE uses in its "shunt routines" to test pointers during its CEEDUMP processing. The consumer (probably an IBM...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Print Button/Function

A PRINT function, in CICS Explorer would be very handy. to send a 'printer friendly' view to a printer.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Provide program interface to CEDF ON/OFF

Provide a method to both inquire and set the terminal's CEDF status so that EDF can programmatically be turned off.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Smart Purge for DBCTL Tasks

We would like the CICS Purge Transaction Function to recognize that a task is in DBCTL processing and to then communicate with DBCTL to first purge the task from IMS, then continue with the purge in CICS.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

User storage related to CICS/TS Association Data

Our monitoring software needs access to storage which is available to all individual CICS transactions within a unit of work, regardless of whether the transactions execute in a single CICS region or multiple connected CICS regions.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add PERFORM SHUTDOWN parms to set next auto start to COLD or INITIAL

Add the optional parameters COLD and INITIAL to PERFORM SHUTDOWN to set the next non-emergency start to COLD or INITIAL in the global catalog. Setting either parameter would also avoid the overhead of writing the warm keypoint. Note that COLD or I...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Need additional error message for failed Btachrep Delete

Running a Batchrep job that specified a series of remove commands gave no messages at all for each command until an invalid use of a generic value with the next command then reporting it had failed because of a previous error. REMOVE PROGDEF NAME(...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

When a tran abends in a region, CPSM should not route any tran of the same WLM tran group to this target region

Description: FI had observed that following an abend of a transaction in a CICS region, CPSM was still routing transactions with different ids to the CICS region. CPSM currently allows the 'Acceptable level of abend probability' and the 'Acceptabl...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

dynamic distribution of CICS-to-Java workload across the CICS regions Liberty JVM servers

A CICS link to a Java class uses the CICS program definition (PPT) to direct the request to the appropriate Liberty server. The program definition was either dynamically created by the @CICSProgram annotation in the Java class or predefined by an ...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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