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Status Delivered
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 10, 2012

Make SOAP ALIAS transaction available in CICS provided APPLDATA for SMF 119 records

CICS provides APPLDATA for SMF 119 records, processed when an SIOCSAPPLDATA call occurs. Currently this call occurs in DFHSOLS, at the time that the socket is attached, and once per TCPIPSERVICE. For SOAP processing, this call occurs at a point when the transaction CWXN is known to CICS. CWXN eventually will eventually attach another transaction that represents the user's application, but at the time that the APPLDATA is accumulated, this ALIAS transaction information is not available. Since the ALIAS transaction identifier would be useful information to have in the SMF 119 records, this requirement is raised to update the APPLDATA more frequently, with subsequent attaches,

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Dec 11, 2015

    This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.3 which is generally available from December 11th 2015.

    Use of AT-TLS and changes to the CICS Web interface mean that use of CWXN is eliminated negating the need have to gather SMF data from multiple transactions.

  • Guest
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    Oct 5, 2015

    This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.3 which was announced on October 5th 2015 with a planned general availability date of December 11th 2015.
    For more information see the announcement letter http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS215-363

  • Guest
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    Oct 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server

  • Guest
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    Apr 9, 2015

    This is something we would like to address, but by elimating the need for the CWXN transaction. The RFE is being moved into 'Planned for Future release' status. Please note:
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