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Use Microsoft .NET Core to access your CICS applications using CICS Transaction Gateway CICS TG V9.2
Latest Addition to CICS TG SDK CICS Transaction Gateway has recently refreshed its SDK with the addition of new .NET Core Driver for ECI V2 applications. As a result, you can now port your existing .NET ECI Applications to .NET Core and write new applications...
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First & Best Step towards Modernization - IBM WAS & IBM TXSeries with CICS TG
For long, clients have been using TXSeries with WebSphere application server in an architectural pattern that has allowed them to build modern front end with Java EE and continue using COBOL apps for core transaction processing. This deployment pattern within...
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Using Multi-instance mode and automatic client reconnect features of WMQ with TXSeries
Multi-instance queue managers are instances of the same queue manager configured on two or more computers. By starting multiple instances, one instance becomes the active instance and the other instances become standbys. If the active instance fails, a standby...
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cicsadmin for TXSeries region administration
From TXSeries 9.1, you can use cicsadmin command from shell command prompt to 1) List tasks running on the region [list task] For. e.g # cicsadmin -r REG1 list task Date Time Trans Taskid ProgName User Pid TranClass TerminalID 170817...
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Reuse all your business logic in Java EJB beans through simple calls from TXSeries
Have you wondered if you can exploit the business logic residing as session bean in JEE server (such as Liberty) from the applications in COBOL or C in TXSeries? TXSeries 9.1 delivers it right on target. TXSeries region can call EJB session bean by using EXEC...
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Why my COBOL application files are locked and unable to refresh on windows?
Nageswararao V Gokavarapu
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When ever Micro focus Visual COBOL applications are executed on Windows platform, the applications are loaded to the cache maintained by COBOL in CICSAS process. The program remains in cache for providing better performance. If user wanted to update the...
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How to create SFS server and PPC Gateway servers with predefined volume sizes?
Nageswararao V Gokavarapu
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While creating SFS server using cicscp command, two volumes are created. One volume (log volume) for storing the log information and another volume (data volume) for storing the user data. The user data can be either VSAM emulated files, Temporary Storage...
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Automatic collection of TXSeries runtime logs during abnormal termination of region
Nageswararao V Gokavarapu
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When TXSeries runtime detects an unrecoverable error condition while executing a transaction or during self consistency check, then TXSeries CICS runtime abnormally terminates the region with an U-ABEND. Few examples of U abends are like U4803, U5655,...
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Automatically acquire your IPIC remote connection during region startup in TXSeries v8
You can write an application using CONNECTION apis and define the same as the startup application in the region. A rough sample application to try, modify and use is provided below. #define ACQ_STATUS_ACQUIRED 69 #define ACQ_STATUS_NOT_ACQUIRED 70 #define...
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A quick way to know the ports used by TXSeries region without lsof command
You want to quickly identify the listener ports consumed by CICS region processes if you don’t have lsof installed in your server. You can use “netstat -Aan” combined with the “rmsock” command in AIX explained in below script. #!/usr/bin/ksh netstat -Aan |...
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Let your Websphere Liberty profile communicate to TXSeries using CICS transaction Gateway
jitheshmoothoor
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sphere
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You can use these steps to configure TXSeries with Websphere Liberty using CICS Transaction gateway. Configure TXSeries IPIC in remote mode you need to store the IPIC server definitions in the configuration file (ctg.ini). SECTION...
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Tuning the default pagesize of SFS to 32K for improving performance
TXSeries uses SFS as the default file manager. SFS uses 4K page size for all its read/write operations. With TXSeries 8.2, we have a option to change the page size of SFS to 32k based on the application requirement. If the applications has a lot of I/O...
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Not able to download TXSeries fixes from IBM Fix Central?
Prior to downloading TXSeries fixes from IBM Fix Central, you need to ensure that your IBM User ID is linked to a valid IBM Customer number showing active support. For more details, refer to Entitlement section at Fix Central help, http://www-947.ibm.com/syste...
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Are you seeing Allocation timeout with PPCGateway server?
TXSeries regions communicate with SNA systems with synchronization level 2 support if it is configured with PPC gateway. The CICS region is connected to a TCP/IP network through the PPC Gateway server, which provides a link to the SNA network. Allocate timeout...
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How can we identify the CICS process and its port from ‘sarpccp show mapping’ output in TXSeries 8?
You can list all the sarpc endpoint entries using 'sarpccp show mapping' command. For example:- <object> b6b419e2-1fda-11e3-9106-001a64910fbc <interface id> 004c9bcc-bf17-1bef-b1d9-9e62091c0000,1.0 <string binding>...
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Usage of ports in TXSeries IPIC setup
The DPL request with IPIC protocol in a TXSeries region uses two sockets for communication. One socket handles all the inbound requests from the partner region, while the other socket handles all outbound requests to the partner regions. Hence, two ports are...
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TXSeries 8.2 supports 16 character Temporary Storage Queue names
lakshuraghav
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Temporary storage using Temporary Storage Queues (TSQ) is a key facility in TXSeries for storing data that can be shared across multiple transactions. You can retrieve the items by using the TSQ name assigned to the queue from any transaction. With TXSeries...
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why region failed to start on 64-bit linux server with ERZ058009E
Nageswararao V Gokavarapu
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While starting the region on linux 64-bit server, the region start can fail with following errors ERZ010218I/0546 12/18/14 01:19:28.117475000 MYMQCONF 24541/0001 : Starting 'cicsrl' process ERZ058009E/0020 12/18/14 01:19:28.118682000 MYMQCONF...
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Exposing CICS applications as Web Services in just 5 steps!
Web Services facility was provided as a Support pack in TXSeries 7.1. From TXSeries 8.1, it is integrated into the product . Do you know that configuring Web Service and expose CICS application as Web Service can happen with just 5 steps in TXSeries 8 and...
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How to use logical volumes (instead of file volumes) for SFS server in Linux
Nageswararao V Gokavarapu
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From TXSeries 8.1, by default file volumes are created for SFS and PPCGWY servers. For achieving the better performance use logical volumes instead of file volumes. The following example demonstrates creating the SFS server using logical volumes. Similar...
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Do you know setting incorrect locale for TXSeries leads to unexpected issues?
All locale specific environment variables (LANG, LC_*, etc.) in the system need to be set to any one of the TXSeries supported locale value only. Otherwise, you might see unexpected CICS behavior and issues. For example, you might see an issue like CICS...
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How to detect transactions which are hung and purge them automatically?
Nageswararao V Gokavarapu
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The TXSeries 7.1.0.5 provides Transaction Monitoring facility that monitors all non-terminal based transactions in order to detect possible hung transactions. When a transaction is suspected to be hung, if it has run for over 300 seconds (Default Value). The...
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How to administer TXSeries regions as non-root user
In many organizations, due to security reasons, it is inadvisable to allow everyone to access root user and password. This causes lot of inconvenience for the developers who write new code day in and day out, and frequently have to restart TXSeries CICS...
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Why the transaction taking more time to complete?
Nageswararao V Gokavarapu
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The following article describes how to narrow down performance issues that can occur during the execution of transaction invoked through CICS Transaction Gateway. If the transaction is not responding for long time, it can be due to application logic, TXSeries...
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5 steps away from submitting new request to TXSeries
Whilst, TXSeries team considers new technology trends in this next releases, Our paramount importance is to include the features which comes through our customers. Should you have a new request or enhancement to existing feature set, Here is how you do so......
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