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This RFE is partially satisfied by CICS TS 5.4 which is generally available from today June 16th 2017.
For more information see the announcement letter https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS217-113
Changes for CICS-MQ to exploit the WLM health api will address number 1 usecase because if CICS is initialialised with WLMHEALTH set to (0,nn) then health will remain at 0 and MQMONITORS will not be started.
This RFE is partially satisfied by CICS TS 5.4 which was announced on May 16th 2017 with a planned general availability date of June 16th 2017.
For more information see the announcement letter https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS217-113
Changes for CICS-MQ to exploit the WLM health api will address number 1 usecase because if CICS is initialialised with WLMHEALTH set to (0,nn) then health will remain at 0 and MQMONITORS will not be started.
This is something we would like to address. The RFE is being moved into 'Planned for Future release' status. Please note:
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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
I would like to add an additional use case - that CICS be allowed to startup without allowing any new work (i.e., restart light), but is allowed to synchronize with other resource managers (DB2, MQ, IMS) to backout inflight UOWs. As soon as recovery is complete, CICS should shutdown (similar to how DB2 restart light works). Today, CICS will stay up and reconnect to the active DB2 on the LPAR.