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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Please consider adding a monitoring field / 110 record field to track CPU time consumed by TCB switches caused by code not being threadsafe

Considering that an effort to migrate a customer's suite of applications to be threadsafe can be difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive and risky, it would be very beneficial to have a mechanism the help objectively quantify the potent...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide CICS TS Message Utility Features in CICS TS5.*

I use the CICS Message Utility to modify the DFHAC2206 abend message such that it says "DFHAC2206 HH:MM:SS APPLID Transaction XXXX failed with abend AZCT. If abend is AZCT, a timeout has occurred. Re-enter transaction to continue."I have the timeo...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS policy to capture all CICS abend task

Currently, CICS policy system rule (rule type = Transaction abend) can only capture UNHANDLED abend task. If application program has EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND logic to handle abend, the abend will not be treated as an abnormal end of a task and will ...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Incorrect Cross-reference of data names with integrated preprocessor CICS

When Integrated cics preprocessor is used, variable which are only used in EXEC CICS not appears in the Cross-refence of data names. It appears correctly when cics preprocessor is used
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Dedicated Timeout Parm for WEB CONVERSE/WEB RECEIVE

We currently use WEB CONVERSE to get data back from remote services via HTTP. We have run into issues whereby system failures on the destination side will not send a response resulting in the CICS task to indefinitely wait until intervention occur...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

The ability for CICS to capture data and graph into Grafana/Promethius.

We would like a similar capability that MQ supplies via GitHub that provides capabilities to format display data and allows you to graph it via Grafana/Promethius. This request would not be for a separate chargeable product but provided either in ...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add support for using HTTP-Headers in WS Pipeline

Currently we do not have an official way to specify a http-Header in an outbound web service. The way to specify this as an extension to the soapaction-header is no official way.Please provide an API
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS TCPIP Ports to reset to CLOSE status whenever TCPIP server crashes

The CICS TCPIP Ports needs to automatically reset to CLOSE status whenever TCPIP server crashes.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Limit the amount for outgoing parallel connections via URIMAP

For each implementation of connection pooling in other systems, also in the distributed world, you are capable to limit the amount of parallel connections. This is something we would like to use for the connection pool of an URIMAP. The requiremen...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

make CPSM routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe

Please make the dynamic routing module EYU9XLOP threadsafe.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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