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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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"Summarized active target region distribution trends" in WUI needs additional information

EYUSTARTWLMATARG.TABULAR2 view in the WUI, "Summarized active target region distribution trends" gives the total number of Route Selections for each target region. That field is RTSELECT, and it is populated from data in the AOR descriptor.While i...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update system logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data.

Update logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data rather than a fixed retention period. IXGDELET requests for data that has not reached that RETPD should be honored. From a logstream admin...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

"Cancel button" when WUI hangs with 'BUSY' message.

Findings using the WUI and issuing a query which sends a request to a MAS that is experiencing problems such as MXT, SOS, or other severe problems will cause the WUI to hang until the request times out. Despite the parameters that let to determine...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

XRMIOUT exit invoked because of an EXEC DLI command issued by a program that was Cobol called needs a way to determine RSA

The situation: 1) The Initial Program of a CICS transaction, or a program that was invoked by EXEC CICS LINK or EXEC CICS XCTL, does a Cobol Call to invoke a ProgramB.2) This ProgramB does an EXEC DLI call.3) There is a Global User Exit program th...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Allow CEA taking operlog snapshot asynchronously

The description for MR0115131314. It opened in FITS due to 68397,000, 738 PMR.In the current design, CEA was not able to create the operlog snapshot for the duration specified in CEAPRMxx (default is 30 minutes) quickly enough, and the request tim...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Define multiple resource in BAS with same name but different properties for different applications

System: BAS resource managementActor: System Administrators Description: We are trying to migrate our resource definitions from shared-CSD to Data Repository. When using shared-CSD, we can store resource definitions into different group for differ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS XMLTRANSFORM Assistant utility add entries into an existing Bundle

CICS XMLTRANSFORM assistant utility creates one Bundle for each XSD schema or let to overwrite an existing Bundle but isn't able to add a new entry into an existing Bundle. It does mean that Customer has to define in CICS TS one Bundle for each sc...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Put the JVMServer into the CSD CICS BUNDLE definition

We would like the ability to specifiy the JVMServer in the CICS BUNDLE definition in the CSD rather then having it required in the CICS Bundle on the ZFS file system. This would be used if no JVM Server was specified in the osgibundle file that is...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

AXTL create DFHRS message

There is no indication of a connection error prior to transactions abending AXTL. ( no way to alert operations of problem or automatically recover from it. ) We rely on DFHRS21nn messages going through the message domain to automate recovery of LU...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Global TClass implementation

We need a Global TClass implementation in order to serialize transactions across the CICS. The main reason is to avoid to "force" application developers to change their code using the Global ENQUEU and maximizing the high availability.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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