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    Add support for CICS RESOVERRIDES to generate accurate reports such as COLDSTARTCOMPARE

    Reports such as COLDSTARTCOMPARE generate mismatches on DATASETNAME for FILE entries for example. The DFHCSD definition does not match the DATASETNAME attributed to the FILE when CICS applies RESOVERRIDES to the file dsn. The CSD definition for is...
    6 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

    Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
    over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

    I would like to be able to copy from one group en masse to another

    I would like to copy the whole group to another group at the GROUP level. Preferably, if possible, creating the group at the time of the copy itself. Or with a new or used package that is already there. In other words -- COPY PACKAGE FROM(pkg1234)...
    3 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

    Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

    Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under 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 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance the z/OS Explorer CM plugin​ to support MFA

    CICS Configuration Manager V5.4Our application teams have requested the ability to use the CM plugin as an alternative to the ISPF panels. In order to achieve this we would require the CM plugin be enhanced to support MFA.
    about 6 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 0 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 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

    Package Reuse with a Resource/Command Preview & Delete Option

    Enable Options to automatically clear the resource/commands from a package that is being reused along with a preview of resource/commands that is already present in the package
    over 8 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Configuration Manager should use the CPSM infrastructure if available

    Currently, using CM to perform "install" operations for configurations that are CSD based (as opposed to BAS based) requires defining connections to all possible target regions for the installation operations and also running the CM agent code in ...
    almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

    Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
    over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

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