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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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W0914-1740 (PSG) New CICSPlex SM routing algorithm

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: guceda@produban.comSubmitters Company: Produban-Santander Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: W0914-1740 (PSG) New CICSPlex SM routing algorithmHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: e-BusinessCurrent Status:...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

WUI times GMT versus LOCAL of HTASK(history task views)

Users can not see into LOCAL time to the start & stop time for tasks at WUI's HTASK views. That is, Users can only see by GMT time.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Add CICS API command to return BEAR (SDWABEA) to abend exit

Would like a EXEC CICS ASSIGN operand that retrieves the BEAR (Breaking Event Address Register) obtained from SDWABEA for analysis by the EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND program after an ASRA abend.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

set different timeout for DPL to different target region

set different timeout for DPL to different target region
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Suppress API's for the database access (DB2, IMS/DB) via CEDF

If an application should be debugged with CEDF and frequent database accesses are uninteresting, it would be helpful to exclude DB2 and IMS/DB access API's from the CEDF stops.--- Important: No general suppress is necessary. Only as a request with...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

cics logger definitions

when cics v3 first came out there was a program dfhlscu which would read the old cics log files and generate the logger definitions for the dfhlog and dfhhunt datasets to use xcf logger, which at that time was dasd only, it also gave recommendatio...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

"CICSPlex SM resource tables" documentation needs additional information

We had a discussion this morning during the CPSM Community conference call. It was suggested that I submit this through the RFE process..Please update the "CICSPlex SM resource tables" documentation so that more information is given on the real so...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Allow relative GDGs as TDQUEUEs

Please allow the EXEC CICS CREATE TDQUEUE command to include a relative GDG indicator (eg. -1 or -2). The command translator flags DSNAME(xxx.xxx.xxx(-2)) as having too many parentheses. You may also want to extend this capability to the CSD file.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Modify commarea of DYP to contain Invoking program

What the customer is trying to achieve, making routing decisions inside the routing program based on the name of the program that initiated the START request, seems like a perfectly reasonably and valid thing to wantto do. Unfortunately it is not ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

SysPlex/CICSPlex compliance FORCE environment mode

Problem: No CICS simple flag/option in SIT and compiler to force SysPlex/CICSPlex compliance? With the general commoditisation of programmers worldwide skills are dropping or being concentrated into small pools. Customer sites are required to put ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration