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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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DFHCSDUP CHECK LIST function,

Add to batch DFHCSDUP a CHECK function. Particularly CHECK LIST(L1,L2,L3,L4).
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 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.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

SPI Audit retrofitted to CTS 4.2 environment.

Rrequesting the SPI Audit function be ported from CICS TS 5.1 to CICS TS 4.2. Without an auditing function for changes made though CICS explorer, we could not promote this product as a viable software solution to controlling our CICS environment. ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

WUI "Active tasks" view. The previous selected data remain on the screen after a invalid selection.

On the view "Active tasks", after a previous selection, customer has informed an invalid value, e.g., in the field "Taskid". CPSM / WUI issued a error message informing the value is not valid, but the previous presented data still remain in the sc...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect

More meaningful resource attribute names

The resource attribute names in the CICS Explorer can have very cryptic meanings. When you are looking to add an attribute to the view, it is difficult to know which one to select due to the way it was named. I know the dynamic help can be used to...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM CMAS and WUI should invoke STAT transaction for statistics

Need ability to both automatically configure CICS statistics collection in a CMAS/WUI server as well as adhoc statistics collection. Add an action to the CMAS resource table for adhoc, API or CMCI requests from Explorer to have the CMAS or WUI run...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

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...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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...
over 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.
over 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

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