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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Enhance AFCI/AFCY to indicate holder of resource

Enhance the AFCI/AFCY transaction abends to indicate what task was holding the resource. This could be done by dumping (not abending) the holding task or at least producing a message showing what the holding task was.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Event Capture support for EXEC SQL call

Now the event capture in application program only support the EXEC CICS API, for example PROGRAM INIT or PROGRAM LINK, the data we capture in this level, maybe some raw data that not handled yet, and this is not what we want. And the final data th...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

CICS DUMP with ABCODE of x'40' or x'00'

We have a bunch of applications that don't code their EXEC CICS ABEND ABCODE(WS-CODE) correctly; they are initializing the ABCODE field with spaces or not initializing at all. I was interested in changing the abend code from x'00' or x'40' to some...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

Convert the EYU9XSTR Exit to be Threadsafe
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

WOLA BBOC CSD Ressource

Using the WOLA interface is quite difficult and does not allow the use of dynamic changes in a running system. e.g. One is forced to use BBOC STOP_SRVR and then the corresponding BBOC START_SRVR (with all parameters). This has quite a few disadvan...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Report CICS JVMServer GC CPU usage

FI  would like CICS to report the CPU cost of Garbage Collection in addition to the elapsed time.This could be added to the JVM server statistics if this is made available for the JVM as an MXBean field.Migrated from FITS MR0704115122
almost 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...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DFHCSDUP CHECK LIST function,

Add to batch DFHCSDUP a CHECK function. Particularly CHECK LIST(L1,L2,L3,L4).
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 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.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Move CONL to OPENAPI threads

Please consider moving transaction CONL and its alternates to an OPENAPI thread so that their processing does not impact normal CICS work. In general, we would like to see more CICS functions running threadsafe.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration