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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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Add fields to the CPSM CICSRGN Resource Table so as to be able to compute the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval ratio

This would make it easier to monitor the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval Ratio. As it is right now, MSGUSR for each CICS region has to be scanned for the DFHDS0102 message. The items needed to calculate this value, or the value itself, could be put int...
3 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

Support OTel Tracing for DTP over MRO

We require the intercept and propagation of OTel trace spans for DTP over MRO where a trace parent is present.
2 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

Support External JWTs in CICS

Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Extending CICS SMF records with relation between transaction and programs

Hello, we are currently looking into our application which transaction is calling which programs. This is not easy to find out because there is currently no information about that relation in CICS statistics. The CICS statistics already shows whic...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Provide native support for web services requester in JSON

Hello, Currently CICS TS does not support web services requester in JSON format as mentioned in manual :https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=services-planning-json-service-requester-application. As a result, our application team has been ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add to Cics policies the ability to include or exclude specific transaction names.

We need to specify Cics policies to cancel transactions that exceed a specific response time, excluding some long-running ones or those with another allowed threshold. For example, all A* transactions can last for 5 seconds at most, except for ABC...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

Display or messages to monitoring the available private storage

We think it would be very useful to have messages or displays to monitor the available private storage (below the line, above the line and above the bar). In other products have message or displays to monitor the private storage: - In MQ we have m...
19 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

When a task purge/forcepurge attempt fails, there will be a log message saying so

We get a lovely message saying that the request to purge (or force purge) a task has been accepted. If it works, we get a message saying the task ended. If it doesn't... nothing.
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

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