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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS task storage High Water Mark (HWM)

CICS maintains a storage HWM. If a particular txn is processing a mixed workload (e.g. small and large messages within the same MQ Q), we have observed the effect a large message has on the amount of storage acquired by CICS on behalf of each subs...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Route to Local in CICS Cloud

In the world of CICS Cloud where we have Platforms and Applications, can we ensure that if there are viable AORs on a given LPAR (which reeceived the original message from an external source), CICS/CPSM will 'route to local' and only revert to XCF...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Session busy when using LINK

Using the DTP protocol, it's possible to allocate a session before the conversation (multiple SEND/RECEIVE pairs)is started. If there are no sessions available, the allocate returns a SESSION BUSY response and the code then has the choice of waiti...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Expiry of CICS queued requests within the dispatcher queue(s)

A CICS region often has to queue requests because of resource constraints e.g. max tasks has been reached. In order to minimise the risk that a CICS will go SoS, it would be good if any given queued item has a finite lifespan. If the dispatcher de...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Delivery of JAVA - drivers without Eclipse dependency (= NO Zwangsguifizierung!)

Including CTS 4.2, the JAVA-driver transactions JHE1 and JHE2 have been implemented without dependency to the CICS - Explorer / Eclipse. With CTS 5.1 you need PC - Tools. This is not good and should be changed as soon as possible!
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Authenticate option for server urimaps

There are cases where an application needs to support basic authentication for protected content being served by CICS Web Support. In this situation the application must serve both anonymous and authenticated users. To use basic authentication wit...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support CICSPlex/SM Application Scopes in CICS explorer

With CICSPlex/SM BAS functionality it is possible to define resources, which will be installed in CICS. And it is also possible to specify an application scope for these resources.<br />In the operations views in the CPSM WUI it is possible ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Unnecesary Page-ins of CPSM dataspace storage can negatively impact CICS workload

CPSM dataspace storage is never freed back to the operating system. Once a chunk of CPSM dataspace storage is used and released, CPSM puts it on a free chain to be used later. Sometimes this storage remains unused for hours or days. During that pe...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS should better interact with TWS

Customer would like to take automatic actions, like restart CICS COLD, in case there is no unit of work to be recovered.They would like to integrate CICS with TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler).
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Extend lifetime of ENQ to CICS

Current ENQ lifetime support UOW and task. Customer want the ENQ can exist after the task issue ENQ terminate. If no one does the DEQ, CICS can DEQ when it shut down.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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