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CICS Explorer - Color Settings by Connection

Customer would like it if CICS Explorer could Recognize the COLORPAPERHEAVY setting in a specific WUI, when connecting, and reflect the adjusted background color in the specifc CICS Explorer Session (upon Connection). They would ONLY want to see t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

New Copy Facility for CICS Event Processing Resource Bundles

Customer would like to see a "New Copy" facility made available for CICS Resource Bundles. In particular they would like to use the facility with CICS Event Processing. Other CICS facilities have this mechanism for defining a resource to CICS and ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

The CICS Explorer should support the management of CICSPlex.

The CICS Explorer should support the management of CICSPlex. For example, it can create a new CICSPlex.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

differences between CEDA and CMCI

By using CEDA EX GR i can set a request with group *name* as qualifier. So I get all the values of groups which have the groupname part ‘'name'' in it. In CICS Explorer in resource group definition I can not set the first asterisk as a generic ide...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Filter on fields containing date or time info. EX: Startup Date

Example: want to filter using STARTUP DATE on the Regions tab (you can via Julian Data, ie. 5/10/2012 becomes 2012/131), but would like to find those regions restarted after date, like filter of > 2012/131 (better yet > 5/10/2012)Why not use...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Admin Control over Shipped Perspectives

Currently CICS Explorer is shipped with a set of Baseline Perspectives (CICS SM (Default), Resource, z/OS, etc.). We would like our CICS Explorer Administrators to be able to control what baseline perspectives are included in the CICS Explorer ins...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Event Processing Diagnostic Mode

This was MR0316112559 in the FITS system, Submitted 03/16/2011...... Bank of America would like the ability to trace or do some problem determination when they deploy an "Event" and it either fails to work or there is a problem with the deployment...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

z/OS UNIX Files view should allow files to be edited by an Eclipse editor

Customer downloaded the CICS Explorer SDK, installed it in the Eclipse workbench, but I could not select the other Oxygen XML editor plug-in when opening the WSDL, XML Schema (XSD), or XML files in the Z/OS UNIX Files view.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Add %Max Tasks to the Region View (SHARE requirement SSCICS11005)

We would like to see a column added to the CICS Explorer Region view that would represent the current Percentage of MAXT used.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Provide support for CICS Explorer for supported versions of z/VSE

The SOD for CICS Explorer indicates that z/VSE 5.1 is required to use this product. Many existing CICS/TS installations would be interested or could benefit from this product if it was available on earlier supported versions of z/VSE.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration