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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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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...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

In XTDOUT exits I would like to have access to the array of segment address/length pairs of all segments for multi-segment TD messages on the first invocation of the exit.

When the first segment of a multi-segment TD message arrived in my XTDOUT exit I can see in the dump that there's an array with pointers to each segment followed by the length of the segment. All segments appear to also be there even though it the...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Statistics for usage of models in autoinstalls

Like other interesting resource parameters, keep a running tab of the usage of terminal models and program models, and report them in their own identifiers as SMF 110(2) records. This can help in housekeeping, and reduce the chances of trying to c...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

It should be possible to specify another RUNAWAY(ICVR) value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?).

It should be possible to have one ICVR value for when task is running on the QR TCB and other non-open TCBs, and anther value for when task is running on open TCBs(L8/L9/T8?) This would enable us to allow larger ICVR values for tasks running on op...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Populate CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST with file close time for closed files.

CPSM Local Files view always shows all zeroes for "GMT file close time" and for "Local time file was closed" for closed files. This is because CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST are always zeroes when file statistics are extracted. They ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Display what Transaction Group the Transaction Already exists when adding it to a different group.

When adding a transaction to a Workload Specification Group, that already exists. It displays the following: "Transactions cannot be in two Transactions Groups. Take from existing group(s)?" Is it possible for it to display what Workload Specifica...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Exit blocking unencrypted CICS outbound connections

In todays IT world, where business security is top priority, it would be useful to have a possibility of blocking unencrypted outbound CICS TCPIP connections (WebServices, HTTP connection).
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

RUWAPOOL must work for DPLed (Distributed Program Linked) programs

Specifying RUWAPOOL=YES in the SIT gives an installation the chance to reduce the number of CICS GETMAINs and FREEMAINs thus reducing overhead and therefore saving cpu cycles. The “System Initialization Parameter Reference” book states the followi...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enable zHyperwrite for VSAM and VSAM-RLS files in SIT

We're looking to implement zHyperwrite on our system, it's already active for DB2/MQ, and we will soon deliver the APAR (UJ92354) for vsam part. Following this documentation : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=performance-zhyperwrite It'...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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