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Add a site defined Change Package Menu Option to trigger User Defined function/process.

Need a site defined change package menu option to trigger an immediate ISPF program (say Rexx) or another custom Exit Routine to perform site required checks - e.g. check JES queue and cancel scheduled future jobs.
about 1 month ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Planned for future release

Add functionality to Customize Columns on CICS Resource View/Package View Panels for display

Adding the functionality to customize searchable columns on the CICS CM Panels will help users expand their search based on additional resource definition fields (Example: Description field). This will save time in filtering of resource definition...
5 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

CICS CM CHECKSUM in package display

In CICS CM when viewing the components of a package via 3.x.2, displaying the checksum with packaged components would save customers time by allowing them to verify checksums of components in a package at one time.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive/Delete old Change Packages and all references from repository in batch mode, given a criteria

We have thousands of packages in our Configuration Manager created over past few years that are no longer needed and the initial listing of packages from Menu (without any filter) loads all of the entries. Requirement is to Archive and delete old ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to use a change package for single migration - with a 'Lock' option at package level following a Migrate action..

We would like to be able to use a change package for a single migration. Once package is migrated, it should be locked for changing of package contents and re-use. We should be able to look at history, do an install, and perform a backout. But can...
about 1 year ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CICS CM Agent Functionality

Currently the agent handles CEDA INSTALL, we would like to see it also handle CEDA DEFINE. We plan to use CM agent for our remote CICS region and having to manually NDM or xmit the CSD DEFINE commands to the remote site and then run batch job to s...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

Delete SCHEME should have a FORCE option to ignore RI Check errors

The deletion of a Migration Scheme suffers RI Check failed because a PSCHEME record references the Scheme. To delete the Scheme, you first must delete the related change packages. However, the customer may want to keep the change packages for reus...
over 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

INFO/INFO2 codes in Config Manager error messages should be documented

Some messages that the CICS Configuration Manager product produces contain codes, referred to as INFO and INFO2 codes, that are not documented and require involvement from IBM support before they can be interpreted, understood, and a solution for ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Single view for all packages(CM) across all sysplexes

Hi,We can only see all the CICS CM packages that are belongs to a single sysplex. But if we have multiple sysplex environments, it become very difficult to go to each sysplex and check for the CICS CM Package to install every day. This gets compli...
about 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Batch CM Deployment Analysis Report - Additional Functionality

The CM Deployment Batch Report needs the below additional functionalities: 1) Create package with duplicate entries to be deleted (Should identify duplicate entries that are not in use only)2) Create an export file which can be used as input into CM
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration