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polymathtarun
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| There have been instances in in our environment when CICS region runs out of active task limit due to excessive concurrent users hits. At times this creates connectivity loss thus impacting downstream applications and further business outrage. Can someone please advise what alternate solutions are available to ensure better system availability in this situation? |
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Robert Sample
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| There are a number of limits set for a CICS region, usually through changes to the SIT (system initialization table). You absolutely MUST contact your site support group and work with them to change these values. Modifying them can impact the system as a whole, but if you have adequate business reasons for changing them then your site support group can make the changes. |
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polymathtarun
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| Thank you so much. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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| Act as per what Robert has recommended but also did you think on TCP/IP OR Network balancing ? |
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polymathtarun
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| Rohit- There is no network issue. Can you please explain me how network balancing is going to help here? |
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Robert Sample
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| If the issue is CICS max tasks being reached, or CICS storage limits being reached, then I don't see how TCP/IP or Network balancing could possibly help. If max tasks is reached, for example, it doesn't matter where in the network the terminal is coming from it still cannot run a transaction until the max tasks condition is resolved. And, actually, if network balancing allows more terminals access to the region than are currently getting there, network balancing could actually make the problem WORSE, not better. |
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polymathtarun
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| Awesome and thank you for an explanation, Robert Sir. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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I thought the transactions can be re routed when one region gets exhausted it's limit.
Upon further readings it should probably be good to combo transaction CLasses (TCLASS) with MXT Parameter to make it more scalable. |
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polymathtarun
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Robert and Rohit
Can you please advise which specific parameters of SIT table must be fine tuned to get rid of this problem. Thank You. |
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Robert Sample
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Have you done (or had your site support group do) a STAT and reviewed it? That can help pinpoint problem areas.
Most likely, based on the little you've said, the parameter to change will be MXT. This directly controls how many concurrent tasks are allowed in a CICS region. The default is 250 but few, if any, sites use the default. If the value of MXT gets increased a lot, I'd say to review DSALIM and EDSALIM since more transactions means more memory in use by those transactions. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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| How more specific do you need ? with those above keywords in bold take a look in the IBM Manuals and then you should get close to the solution and understand it. |
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