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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Transaction Server needs to support requesting a refresh of the performance block for long running inflight tasks

CICS Transaction Server needs to support requesting a refresh of the performance block for long running inflight tasks after a VARY WLM,ACTIVATE | REFRESH command is issued. User is running CICS Transaction Server V1R3M0 had has several long runni...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHRMUTL should print planned STARTUP warm/emergency (GSE requirement DBCICD99024)

DESCRIPT : The information in the global catalog for the planned startup ( warm or emergency ) is not printed by the DFHRMUTL. This means an incorrect (or incomplete) information given by the utility. EMER / WARM brings AUTO ASISBUSVAL : INVVAL : ...
over 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...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 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.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs method to change password

Unable to change expired password when using CICS Explorer. A message is issued at the bottom of the window that the password is expired:"IZE0106E Connect failed with error "Password expired" (Winmvs A0 RW)" (Data in brackets is the name of the co...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

CICS Return Code Propagation to CTG

We require that CICS propagate full abend code details to the CICS Transaction Gateway when connected using the IPIC protocol. Currently some abend codes, such as AKCC, are not provided to theTransaction Gateway and thus cannot be passed back to t...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Facility to monitor the LACB/LACBE usage for CICS

The number of IRC and IRC XM LOGONs are limited per SVC per LPAR after which no more CICS regions are able to register. There is a need for some facility/tool/command to monitor the usage of related control blocks especially LACB/LACBE.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve doc about dealing wiht Java problems

Client feedback indicates that there are an increasing number of additional traces and logs beyond the three JVM server output files. It would be useful to have a summary of how to turn on ALL the various diagnostic options. - Would like to see mo...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Improve doc about installing CICS TS

Client feedback indicates that the installation information for CICS TS is out-of-date, ambiguous and difficult to follow. It doesn't connect well with the other documents that are needed for installing, such as the Program Directory and z/OS docu...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CPSM API : Get CSD DSNAME and BASEDSNAME for DFHCSD for a CMAS

We are using CPSM API to retrieve infaormation about our regions. One of them is the CSD NAME (both DSNAME and BASEDSNAME). Unfortunately, we are not able to do that for the CMAS. It will help us if it was possible. More generally speaking, we can...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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