CICS Web services Open Mic
This Open Mic session will be focused on CICS® Web services. The session will open with a 5 minute introduction followed by a 55 minute customer Q&A session with the experts. Come and ask the experts! |
Beta and Early Test Programs for CICS
Current CICS® products are always changing due to service and new development. As new releases are being developed, and prepared for general field consumption, IBM® might provide one or more early program offerings to allow customers and Business Partners (BP) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) the opportunity to work with that code. |
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Additional IBM Education Assistant modules are now available for CICS TS V3.2
IBM® Education Assistant (IEA) is a collection of multimedia educational modules designed to help you gain a better understanding of IBM products and use them more effectively to meet your business requirements. CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V3.2 IEA modules on installation, system management, and programming that include both voice and text were delivered earlier this year. Additional IEA modules on system management, programming, and technical overviews are now available. |
Education: Join Open Mic on CICS Web services
You are invited to an IBM® Open Mic discussion about CICS® Web services on 27 August 2008 at 11:00 AM EST. The Open Mic will start with a short introduction to CICS Web services. Afterwards, you will be given the opportunity to ask a panel of experts your questions. |
CH1C: CICS TS V3.2 Service Flow Feature - Service Flow Example
This SupportPac™ provides a sample service flow and driver application, that can be run from a CICS® terminal using the Service Flow Feature of CICS TS for z/OS® V3.2. |
CA8K: CICS TS for z/OS: Delivering Atom feeds from CICS
This SupportPac™ provides sample code to demonstrate how to generate Atom feeds to publish data contained within CICS® resources or obtained by running a CICS application. |
CA1N: CICS TS - Support for the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
This SupportPac™ provides tools to enable CICS® Transaction Server V3.1 or later to publish and retrieve WSDL documents to and from the IBM® Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). |
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CS1I: CICS TS V3.2: CICSPlex SM IP Connector Utility
This SupportPac™ provides a batch process for defining multiple IP interconnectivity (IPIC) connections between CICS® regions in a single job. |
CS04: CICS TS for z/OS WSBind File Display and Change Utility
This SupportPac™ provides a Java™ program and associated artifacts that allow you to display and change some of the values in a CICS® TS V3.2 WSBind file from a z/OS® batch job. |
CA8H: CICS 3270 Web Bridge Support for Codepage 930
The converter program in this SupportPac can be used to provide support for codepage 930 when using the CICS® 3270 Web Bridge. |
CS12: CICSPlex SM - Administration and operation sample utilities
Sample CICSPlex® SM (CPSM) Batched Repository Update material used for DUMPing the contents of the Data Repository etc. |
CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 V1.3 technote plug-in
A set of support technotes and APARs for CICS® Transaction Server for OS/390® V1.3. Packaged as an Eclipse document plug-in that can run in any Eclipse help system. |
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DFHKE0104 and How to find the SVCTABLE
You receive error message DFHKE0104 indicating that an incorrect SVC was passed. |
DFHPA0001 ABEND0723 during verify batch job DFHIVPBT
You are running the verify batch job DFHIVPBT to start your CICS® Transaction Server region. CICS fails to initialize with message: DFHPA0001 An abend (code ---/0723) has occurred at offset x'3164' in module DFHPADM. The last message in the startup is DFHPA1101 DFHSIT IS BEING LOADED. |
Consequences of using the CICS KILL function
Unpredictable results, possible loops, and task hangs can occur when using the CICS® KILL function. |
EIBCPOSN and EIBAID not available to 3270 Bridge application
You are using the CICS® Transaction Server for z/0S® 3270 Bridge. The bridge does not make the EIBCPOSN or EIBAID available to the application until a RECEIVE, CONVERSE, or RECEIVE MAP is issued. |
Deprecation of the CICS Web Interface commarea interface
Does CICS® Transaction server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V3 include a statement of direction to remove the CICS Web Interface (CWI) commarea interface? If so, can you provide a technique for distributing a Web workload across multiple CICS regions when using the EXEC CICS WEB commands? |
Running CICS on multiple LPARs with logger
Can CICS® regions be brought up on multiple LPARs (not at the same time) in support of a CICSplex? For example, define MVS™ logstreams on LPAR-A and then be able to bring CICS up on either LPAR-A or LPAR-B depending on which LPAR is available. |
IXG231 and DFHLG0508 for DFHJ01 when starting CICS
You are trying to bring up a CICS® region and receive message IXG231 and DFHLG0508 for DFHJ01. |
IXG231I and DFHLG0772 with RC8 RSN811 on connection to logstream
CICS® Transaction Server with coupling facility LOGGER receives message IXG231I and DFHLG077 reporting that the connection to the logstream did not succeed. Both messages return a return code of 00000008 and a reason code of 00000811. |
Releases of CICS TS supported by CICS Performance Analyzer 2.1
What are the hardware and software requirements for CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS® (CICS PA) V2.2, including the releases of CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) that are supported? |
Releases of CICS TS supported by CICS Interdependency Analyzer V2.2
What are the hardware and software requirements for CICS Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA) V2.2), including the releases of CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) that are supported? |
NEWCOPY and PHASEIN do not bring in a new version of Java program
You make changes to your Java™ program and recompile it. Then you enter CEMT SET PROGRAM(java-program) with the NEWCOPY or PHASEIN options and receive a response of NORMAL. The next time you run your Java program you expect CICS® to use the new version. However, CICS continues to use the version that does not contain your latest changes. |
DFHSIP DSPACE=2M used in EXEC statement
Your CICS® Transaction Server EXEC statement has a DSPACE parameter: // EXEC DFHSIP,PARM='SIT=SP,GRPLIST=VSELIST,$END',DSPACE=2M. What is the meaning of DSPACE? |
CCR2 is a publication for the IBM System z software community
You would like to understand what CCR2™ is. This document describes the mission of CCR2 and provides a link to the Website where you can subscribe and view previous issues. |
CTG9638E: Transaction Abend AEI0 occurred with no message in MSGUSR
You have a Web service flowing through a local CICS® Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) that initiates a transaction in your CICS Transaction Server region. You receive the following error: |
When are file control commands forced to run on the QR TCB?
You are planning to enable file control threadsafety for local VSAM LSR files in CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V3.2. You would like to know which file control requests will run under the CICS quasi-reentrant (QR) TCB, rather than on an open TCB. |
Announcement Letters for CICS Products
You want easy access to the Announcement Letters for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) and CICS Tools. |
DFHII1037E received when performing rolling upgrade
You are attempting a rolling upgrade of your CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) regions from your current (old) release to a newer release. Your application is now running in an AOR at the newer release. However, when you attempt to run with a TOR at your current (older) release, you receive message: DFHII1037E |
SSL RC 435 from function 'gsk_secure_socket_init'
Your CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) Web services SSL request fails with: DFHSO0123 Return code 435 received from function 'gsk_secure_socket_init' of System SSL. Reason: Untrusted Certificate Authority. |
CICS region hang due to LMQUEUE wait on USADLOCK
You are running CICS® Transaction Server 2.3 and recently upgraded to a new release of CA-Top Secret®. Your region hangs with many tasks stuck in LMQUEUE waits for the USADLOCK. |
IEC161I an error occurred during OPEN processing of a dataset
You receive message IEC161I 052(013)-084 when a batch job is trying to open a dataset already open to CICS®. The batch job and CICS have no problem sharing the dataset when CICS and the batch job are in separate MVS images. However, you receive the message when running CICS and the batch job in the same MVS image. |
Knowledge Collection: Web services for CICS Transaction Server
This Knowledge Collection is a focused compilation of links to documents for Web services for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V3.1 and V3.2. |
CICS SupportPacs by Category
The tables below summarize the CICS® SupportPacs sorted by category. To see more detail on a particular SupportPac™, select the appropriate SupportPac number in the first column. To go straight to the SupportPacs for a particular category, click on the entry in the list below. |
Fix list for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.2
This document contains a table of APARs for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V2.2. A comma separated values (CSV) file containing all the fields for each APAR is also included as an attachment. You can use the CSV file to import the list of APARs into a spreadsheet or database for sorting or downloading. |
Fix list for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.3
This document contains a table of APARs for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V2.3. A comma separated values (CSV) file containing all the fields for each APAR is also included as an attachment. You can use the CSV file to import the list of APARs into a spreadsheet or database for sorting or downloading. |
Fix list for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.2
This document contains a table of APARs for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V3.2. A comma separated values (CSV) file containing all the fields for each APAR is also included as an attachment. You can use the CSV file to import the list of APARs into a spreadsheet or database for sorting or downloading. |
Fix list for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1
This document contains a table of APARs for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V3.1. A comma separated values (CSV) file containing all the fields for each APAR is also included as an attachment. You can use the CSV file to import the list of APARs into a spreadsheet or database for sorting or downloading. |
Language Environment within CICS Transaction Server: Questions and Answers
This document is directed at CICS® System Programmers who want to understand the implications of installing Language Environment® (LE) into a CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) region. |
CICS Transaction Server Detailed System Requirements
Detailed System Requirements contain the supported operating system requirements, hardware requirements, software requirements, and other related information for a product. From this document you can select Detailed System Requirements for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V3.2, V3.1, and V2.3, You can also select Detailed System Requirements for CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA™ V1.1.1. |
CICS Transaction Server V3.2 detailed system requirements
The tables in this document contain the supported operating systems, and the hardware and software requirements for CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V3.2. There are also related CICS links at the bottom of this document under Related Information. |
CICS SupportPacs
The IBM® CICS® SupportPac™ family provides you with a range of downloadable code and documentation that complements the CICS family of products. The majority of SupportPacs are available at no charge to users. Others can be purchased as fee based services from IBM. |
Finding CICS PSP Buckets
You should review the Preventive Service Planning (PSP) bucket information for a product when planning for an upgrade or applying maintenance. Often, you might not know the UPGRADE or SUBSET name of the PSPBUCKET. This document gives the links directly to the PSP buckets for supported releases of CICS® Transaction Server, CICSPlex® SM, and CICS Tools. You can also find any PSP bucket on the Web for any product. |
List of APARs Migrated to CICS Transaction Server V3.2
List of Authorized Program Analysis Reports (APARs) that have been migrated to CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V3.2 from CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1. |
II14195: DB2 OEM PRODUCTS PROBLEM FIX (CONT. OF II14036) R710 R810
DB2 OEM PRODUCTS PROBLEM FIX (CONT. OF II13897, II14039) =========MMT 08/27/2008================================== |
PK63729: DFHMQ0416 MESSAGES ARE BEING ISSUED BECAUSE ABLK.PFAILAREA ISN'TCLEARED IN DFHMQTRU BEFORE INVOKING DATA CONVERSION SERVICES
The reason for the DFHMQ0416 messages is that pFailData contains a residual address (i.e. for a previous MQGET which failed due |
PK68425: DFHXS0001 ABEND B78 AKEX OFFSET 166A IN MODULE DFHXSCT RACDCERT TO VALIDATE CERTIFICATE MODULE DFHXSSE
Upgrading from CICS 3.1 to CICS 3.2 and recieved the following error message: |
PK70693: CSKP (KEYPOINT) GOES INTO A HARD LOOP IN DFHLMLM
CSKP goes into a hard loop in DFHLMLM in the UNLOCK_SHARED routine. The stack entry for CSKP appears to be going through |
PK68270: CICS AS A WEBSERVICE CLIENT HANGS AFTER GETTING HTTP/1.0 200
The response to an HTTP OPTIONS request from CICS comes back with HTTP/1.0 200 ok. Content-length is zero. HTTP |
PK69620: MULTIPLE EYUTS0012E (POTENTIALLY THOUSANDS) ISSUED AFTER A NON-MP CMAS REMOVED FROM PLEX
If a non-MP (non-Maintenance Point) CMAS "CMASA" is removed from the plex while another CMAS "CMASB" is down, CMASB will |
PK67370: TASKS GETTING HUNG IN ZC DFHZEMW1 WAITS DUE TO A USER DFHPEP THAT ISSUES A RECEIVE.
A TASK abends with a User Abend Code. During abend processing DFHTFP TRANSACTION_ABENDED issued a VTAM RESETSR to cancel |
PK61843: IN COBOL CWS APPLICATION, CRLF 0D25 X'0D25' IS CONVERTED AS 0D15X'0D15'
Customer uses JCICS to develop COBOL application. 0D25 is set as CRLF in DOCUMENT. However it's discovered 0D25 is converted as |
PK71173: NO ERROR MESSAGE WHEN OPEN EXTENDED ATTRIBUTE RLS/ESDS FILE
Getting ILLOGIC response '080068' when accessing extended attribute RLS/ESDS with size >4GB. According to PQ42266, we |
PK71166: MSGDFHAP0001 AN ABEND (CODE 0C4/AKEA) HAS OCCURRED AT OFFSET X'00000B94' IN MODULE DFHTSUT WHEN RUNNING CEOS.
MSGDFHAP0001 An abend (code 0C4/AKEA) has occurred at offset X'00000B94' in module DFHTSUT running the CEOS transaction. |
