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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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DFHCSDUP COPY enhancement to CICS V5.2 (retrofit from CICS V5.3)

Retrofit to CICS V5.2 the DFHCSDUP COPY enhancement that has been added to CICS V5.3 which allows copying of a single resource definition from one group to another opposed to having to copy the entire group..
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS INQUIRE DATASET for FCT or TDQ associated with the file

Identify the FCT or TDQ name associated with a dataset name specified in the System Programming Interface INQUIRE DSNAME options. It would also be helpful if this were available via CEMT INQ DSNAME.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS trace by task number

Provide CICS to trace a specific task number, currently running.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

JVM messages prefixed with timestamps

To day messages from JVM in CICS TS are not prefixed with timestamps.The messages issued from JVM in neither HFS/ZFS directories pointed to JVMprofile, nor if redirected to STDOUT, STDERR, STDTRC contains any timestamps(DATE/TIME). It would be of ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DB2 and CICS pre- compilers do not recognize Cobol V5 floating comments

COBOL V5 allows use of "floating comment", sequence space + " * >" followed by a free text. DB2 pre- compiler (tested with DB2 V10) and CICS pre-compiler (tested with CICS TS 4.2) do not recognize this Cobol V5 syntax comment, and the presence ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

CICSPLex to be configured to distribute workload on percentage basis

Requesting to add new CPSM algorithm that allows us to distribute workload to target regions based on percentage similar to Sysplex distributor.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Banks Services

This is a request regarding CICSPLEX/SM componect of CICS TS z/OS.In case of 2 CMAS on the same LPAR (same version of product) it's important that when one CMAS is closed,the second CMAS get automatically reconnect to the controlled MAS.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS Policy to handle SQL command in a commit scope

Today CICS offer a CICS policy rule type for Database request and it react when the limit of SQL calls is reached - works excellent.We need a feature to react when too many SQL-commands within a commit scope and even better to select between types...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

add cmf fields enqcount and gnqcount

We would like to see 2 new fields added to CMF as binary count fields: ENQCOUNT and GNQCOUNT which tracks the number of enqueues requested by a task and includes either a subset or a separate count of enqueues converted to global enqueues.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

MWP enhancement to CICS SMF 110 records

IBM are trying to encourage customers to run mobile applications on z/OS by offering software pricing options such as Mobile Workload Pricing. WLM APAR OA47042 added the ability to identify transactions as MOBILE in the WLM classification rules. H...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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