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Please provide a CICS Explorer Operation view for Profile-Definitions

Hello everyone, In the CICS Explorer you can display the profile definitions under Definitions. Unfortunately, you cannot display the profile definitions under Operations, i.e. the active definitions are not displayed. Is it possible to add this f...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Please provide a CICS Explorer Operation view for Partner-Definitions

Hello everyone, In the CICS Explorer you can display the partner definitions under Definitions. Unfortunately, you cannot display the partner definitions under Operations, i.e. the active definitions are not displayed. In the WUI you could display...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 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...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Please add the ability to see ENQ Models that is installed in the CICSplex

We are trying to not use the WUI, and to see ENQ models the only way we can do this today is using the WUI. Can you please add the ability to see see ENQ Models in Explorer.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Add a filter for filename on task rule 'file activity' and a delay.

Currently, when using policy and task rule 'file activity', we monitor all files activity. I would be interesting to be able able to specify a filename in task rule 'file activity' because usually we want to take action on specific file, not all. ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Please provide a CICS Explorer Definitions view for DUMPCODE resources

I want to administer DUMPCODE resources using the CICS Explorer and require a Definition view for updating the resource in the CSD and installing it.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

CICS System Policy for Extra Partition TDQ WRITE output, to detect large output TDQ; there is one at Task Level

We have several output TDQ's that get filled with Millions of TDQ Writes; fills up JES Spool; get paged to Close/Open TDQ to SPOOL off. We have PLT process to do this at Midnight; but now they are filling at arbitrary times; we get paged with aler...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

CICS policies - Suspend time policy rule for user task

CICS policies currently don't have an option to take action on an user task based on Suspend time. Even though RTA has this setup , cost of implementing RTA and its process is not as efficient as CICS policies. Hence Im making a request to IBM to ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

SYSRESVIEW equivalent in CICS Explorer

We need an equivalent of SYSRESVIEW in WUI for CICS Explorer.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration