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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Cics Liberty shared library bundle support

To speed up starting times of the liberty server in cics it we have to host the included jar files in liberty applications only one time per server -> move them to shared liberty librarys. For this we need a function to deploy a cics bundle wit...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS EXIT POINT to INTERCEPT or ALTER userid

We are running CICS TS 5.2. We have an issue that some of our application transactions are being initiated without supplying a user ID, therefore CICS region userid or CICS default user id is used for those transactions. This is not compliant to o...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CPU time logged if trx is purged while on L8 TCB

To day the cputime is not logged to CMF if a transaction is purged while on L8 TCB.According to IBM this is working as designed.Many applications are now running Threadsafe , so the risk of loosing cputime is great
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 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

trap AKCC with EXEC CICS RECEIVE

Trap an abend AKCC during an EXEC CICS RECEIVE
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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

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

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

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

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