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CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS

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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

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.
almost 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

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

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

CICS Config Manager Sort Function in CMCI connection

CICS CM Explorer CMCI connection doesn't allow sort on columns as the regular CMCI connection does, thus having to swap connections to sort columns based on criteria. I.E. Transaction Definitions, sort on REMOTE ID in regular CMCI connection, can ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Config Manager needs better resource overlay detection

Configuration Manager needs a better mechanism for detecting resource overlays as packages move through the topology. There are instances where if the same resource/resources exist in multiple pacakges that have been migrated into a configuration ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to extract packages from an export file into another file via a batch interface

We require the ability to transport resource definitions between geographically dispersed sysplexes and to apply transformation rules in the process. This need means we will have to migrate through an export file.Since the export file will be used...
over 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Cross-configuration, cross-sysplex reporting

The various reporting functions, especially those that generate comparison reports, should have the ability to create reports that span configurations, servers, and even sysplexes. For example it should be possible to generate a comparison report ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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