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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Add the Concurrency attribute to the Library RDO resource.

Add the Concurrency attribute to the Library RDO resource. It would have the same meaning and values as Concurrency on the Program definition, except it would apply to all programs loaded from the library. It could also be left blank (which would ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Gentran compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

We are upgrading our SAP system and the current Gentran version is not compatible with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Reuse CEEPIPI enclave during multiple EXEC CICS LINK/RETURNs to/from XPLINK programs within the same CICS task.

Running under 1 CICS task, a Cobol driver program does thousands of EXEC CICS LINKs to a C program (Program1) that is compiled with XPLINK. And each time Program 1 is invoked it does an EXEC CICS LINK to a C program (Program2) that is compiled wit...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Abend Compensation support for Distributed Workloads

Implement CICSPlex SM WLM Abend Compensation support for Distributed (DSRTPGM) Workloads.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM to recognize the unavailability of a Named Counter Server.

CPSM RTA component needs to be enahnced to recognize the unavailability of a Named Counter Server, similar to the way in which TS server unavailability is recognized.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Identifying the requests proccessed by CONL transaction

Following PMR 72808,003,756 we have encountered a bottleneck caused by CONL processing an EXEC CPSM request from an application. We were unable to identify the source transaction, causing inability to identify the source of request sent to CONL.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Ability to limit access to systems resources when using the CPSM API

Following PMR 72808,003,756 we have encountered a bottleneck caused by CONL processing an EXEC CPSM request from an application. When using CPSM API, the resources are accessed by the CONL transaction. Even with CONA configuration, after 5 CONA tr...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CONL CPU usage should be charged on the originating transaction.

Following PMR 72808,003,756 we have encountered a bottleneck caused by CONL processing an EXEC CPSM request from an application. We want CPSM activity to be similar to MQ and DB2 - allowing us to both monitor the cpu usage of the transaction and l...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty Profile Security without entry in web.xml

At the moment you need to define in each projects web.xml if you want a security or not. In a Cics where you have a general security in a 3270, or on other interfaces, this is not realy nice, because if a programmer forgets the entry in a web.xml ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Internal Trace should not be allowed to be disabled

Opening this RFC on behalf of the customer in PMR 67263,122,000. They experienced a 2-byte Storage Violation in a TIOA. They run with internal trace turned off, so no history of the storage was visible in the trace table. They were asked to turn a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration