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Status Not under consideration
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 26, 2012

USECOUNT for remote programs

USECOUNT for remote programs
Tracking production problems is getting difficult when we can not see
the use count of remote programs from CPSM. Currently if a program is
remote, CPSM says N/A under "use count" column. We want to know how
many times a remote program has been used up to now, in a daily basis.
We have opened pmr 13932,001,862.
We 've informed that CICS is working as designed.
"CICSPlex SM: Operations Views Reference" books, in "Chapter 4. CICS
operations views", item "Program operations views - Programs - PROGRAM",
establishes the following:
Table 152. Fields in PROGRAM views (continued)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Field |Attribute name|Input values
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Total number of times |USECOUNT |The total number of times the
program was executed | |program has been executed in
| |the current CICS session. For
| |CICS TS 3.2 and later regions,
| |this field shows a use count for
| |Java programs as well as for
| |other types of program. For
| |earlier regions, Java programs
| |do not have a use count in this
| |field. A value of N/A is returned
| |for remote programs.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
.
We need this to be changed

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    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
    Reply
    |
    Jan 28, 2015

    This requirement has been re-evaluated. Looking at current plans, it is not likely that this would be implemented in the next two CICS TS releases, so correspondingly this requirement is being rejected.