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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Provide monitoring data for current number of tasks in TRANCLASS at task attach

CICS provides the performance class monitoring CURTASKS field (id 434) in the DFHTASK group. This field records the number of tasks inside the system at the time of task attach, which is very helpful when understanding retrospectively how rapidly ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Angel support for more than one Liberty per CICS address space

Angel support for more than one Liberty per CICS address space.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

CICS retry to connect TCPIP during startup automatically or as configured

After an IPL, TCP/IP and CICS are started. A CICS region fails to connect TCP/IP during this startup since TCP/IP is not completely initialized. This results in those resources unable to start.CICS should be able to handle this by restarting the c...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Prevent CMAS termination with EYUXC0023S and EYUXC0024S if request for dataspace storage is from end-user query

When a user in the WUI or CICS Explorer issues a query, CPSM creates a result set within the CPSM Dataspaces for the CMAS where the user connected. If CPSM needs to expand a dataspace and is unable to do so due to storage constraints, the CMAS wil...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Save contents of CICS resource view in a folder

The ability to SAVE the select contents of a resource view (Operations or Definition) to a selected folder. We should be able to select the name and the folder. Also, create a new folder if required.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

There isn't any journal automatic recovery when ENF48 is received from logger.

After Volume disabling CICS Logs going in disable state, works as designed. The question is from the LOGGER point of view everything worked normal, now we only need to clarify, when LOGGER sends the ENF48 signal to CICS that the status of the logs...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Web Services should support Unicode (UTF-16)

When using CICS web services, the default translation code page is UTF-8 from localccsid. This customer has user data in a DB2 sub-system stored in UTF-16. To process this data using CICS web services, they must read the DB2 tables and translate f...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Threadsafe for CICS shared data tables

We are unable to fully exploit threadsafe caoability within our CICS applications due to their utilization of shared data tables. We would like to see data tables be compatibile with threadsafe.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS JVMSERVER logs administration

CICS JVMSERVER support generates unix filesystem logs. CICS does not supply anything to administer these logs, which can potentially be big. The infocenter does not supply much help regarding best practices related to logs handling or the content ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

System Policy for MQ connection status

System policy rule to detect when an MQ connection is not enabled.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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