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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Allow CICS to use 2GIG page frames

Hi, We are a heavy users of CICS Data tables. We load millions of records in many regions to Data tables. We observed that CICS uses all the real memory(4TB per Lpar limit) but still couldn't load all the data we would want. We then reached IBM C...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Data of DFHPI0715 message are not correct

When CEMT P PIPE SCAN command ends, the following message is issued: DFHPI0715 I 05/23/2018 15:20:26 CICSPA01 CHGMAN PIPELINE PIPEPROH explicit scan has completed. Number of wsbind files found in the WSDIR directory: 002493. Number of WEBSERVICEs ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS statistics fields sometimes turn negative or don't make sense

One of the fields this problem happens to is Storage Manager: Dynamic Storage Areas Statistics field SMSGMREQ ( Getmain Requests ). By common sense, this field should never be negative. But the Cobol version of DFHSMSDS defines this field as signe...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Allow using regular expression matching in system/application policy/event filtering

Allowing the use of regular expression matching in all types of policy/event filtering rules would significantly enhance the ability to create filtering criteria specific to targeted work.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

RACF granulation of CICS tran CEKL SET PURGE, FORCEPURGE and KILL commands

We want to allow the app devs to purge or forcepurge misbehaving transactions but not to kill them, for example. CEKL/CEMT SET KILL is hazardous to address space integrity in ways purge or forcepurge are not. We don't want app devs to be able to...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

TranClass Queue Expiration Time

Improve the Transaction Class queue to accept defining an expiration time for transactions queued waiting for 1st dispatch. This enhancement will provide de CICS to manage the queue only for transactions that still need to execute and it would rel...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Pass Business data from abending transaction to CICS policy EP adapter

In Policy system rules abend transaction. Offer a CICS container where a CICS transaction business application can put data, like customer id, which could help investigate an abend. The container should be made available to the EP adapter transact...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CPSM WLM Enhancement

Customer needs an enhancement to the CPSM WLM Algorithm in order to improve the workload among the targets. The customer has a single CICSPlex running across two Sysplexes. The environment is large enough that it not possible to merge the existing...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Bring SupportPac CS04 / wsbind utility into base support

SupportPac CS04, the wsbind utility, is current as-is and its functionality should be brought into base CICS support and managed between releases.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Monitoring Tasks Threadsafe - CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED)

Enable the CPSM Monitoring Tasks to run as Threadsafe; running on an Open TCB, CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED). Currently, they run on the QR TCB; and the sampling and occupancy of the QR seems significant, impacting the normal business transaction applicat...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration