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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CMDPROT for calls to External Resource Managers such as MQ and DB2.

Even with Storage Protection active in CICS, it is possible for a USERKEY application program to cause CICSKEY storage to be overlayed. This can happen if the USERKEY program specifies the address of CICSKEY storage as one of the output parameters...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for CFDT and shared TS access

SIA asks to add to CICS TS V5.4 the following feature, already present in CIS TS V5.5 "Access to coupling facility data tables in CICS TS V5.5 is now threadsafe Access to coupling facility data tables (CFDTs) is now threadsafe, so CFDTs can be acc...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Returning non-zero reason code when attributes on a EXEC CICS WRITEQ TS are overridden by a TSMODEL

Modify the RESP2 value for a successful WRITEQ TS to indicate whether the attributes specified on the request do not match the resulting queue. The NORMAL value for RESP would not be altered.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

monitor the perfromance of programs in one task

Current, CICS create one performance monitor record for each task. User can't drill down into performance of each program used in this task. eg. the CPU time of each program in this task. Customer wants CICS write performance data for each program...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

add purgethresh for MXT queue

Add a new SIT that can control the queue length of transactions who are waiting for MXT like purgethresh in Tranclass.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM is generating ATNI message & dump

Customer Fargo has a CPSM HealthCheck program that reads sysout looking for messages that might reflect an error that it "does not know". And in this case (see PMR for ANTI / dump discussion), it also generates a dump ... which customer then feels...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CMAS PUT Maintenance Upgrade

Recently, the customer faced an issue where a production failure that resulted from the need to restart all CMAS regions at the same time. The shutdown prevented an online application being able to use the CPSM API with a flow on effect that impac...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CMAS repository synchronization fails during Non-MP CMAS Upgrade after applying UK58439.

After applying PM13554/UK58439, Upgrading the non-MP CMAS fails when MASs are started before repository synchronization takes place to re-import the cicsplex. The customer started the upgrad to the non-MP by running EYU9XDUT which produced message...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM to provide a new programming interface for use by CTG's CICS request exit.

We are asking to provide a new programming interface in CPSM, in order to let CTG's CICS request exit select the AOR, taking in consideration the AOR status. Today the route selection algorithm can't call CPSM, so the selected AOR could not be abl...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add TRACETYPE to CPSM Resource Table

Please add ability to INQUIRE and SET TRACETYPE, standard and special, to CPSM resource tables.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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