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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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restart CKTI instance after MQRC 2373 failure

Currently an instance of the CKTI is terminated when it encounters a MQRC 2373 failure due to a failed WMQ application structure when using shared queues.. Once the structure is successfully recovered we have to manually restart that instance of t...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

SM Short on Storage - alternative design for the Storage Manager Cushions

Another manifestation of PQ61966. New FITS being opened now for each occurrence to track how pervasive this issue actually is. Please see description of problem in existing FITS MR0920023815
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Support additional Security Algorithms in WSSE, i.e. SHA256

WSSE can sign a message by adding a digital signature. The current algrithms are limited to DSA-SHA1 and RSA-SHA1, but there are several others, which provide higher security, i.e. SHA2. The same applies to the encryption parameters, which support...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Event Processing adapter write to USS file

Provide a CICS Event Processing adapter to write to USS files
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) - Greater Permission Granularity

Currently the CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) rules are limited with respect to CPSM WLM Resource Administration. The OPERATE CPSM ESM group already allows you to break access down by Type (ie: CONNECT, PROGRAM, etc.) The use case below, contains an e...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to use transaction isolation with the DFHMIRS program

The DFHMIRS program that carries out the request is defined with an EXECKEY of CICS. A CICS-key program has read and write access to CICS-key and user-key storage of its own task and all other tasks, whether or not traniso is active.In summary, th...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 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...
about 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...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 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
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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