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CICS Explorer - CPSM WLM Admin Enhance Navigation and Help Information

- Location of the WLMGROUPs is not easy to find- There is not a view for all resource types (WLMSPEC, WLMGROUP, WLMDEF, TRANGRP, etc)- NEW vs New From is confusing- Screen Help information is not built for all the screens- Categorization of Resour...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for z/OS to have multiple concurrent connections for a category

Request that the Host Connections view of IBM Explorer for z/OS permit multiple concurrent host connections to be active within a connection category. Currently, if a connection is shown as successful within a category, then during an attempt to c...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for z/OS to accept connection states via other product plug-ins

Host connection state changes within IBM Explorer for z/OS are currently established manually via the Host Connections view. Request that product plug-ins which can establish host connections independently of the Host Connections view be able to "...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Administrative Interface on mobile device

The CICS Explorer provides a graphical interface for administrating CICS. With all the recent advances with mobile in the last couple of years, it would be good to have a graphical administrative interface that works on mobile devices. Such as iPa...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Color code view tabs to distinguish more easily between operations and definitions

Allow to assign colours to the tabs of views to clearly distinguish between operations and definitions. In the WUI this has not been an issue before because the WUI was not able to access the CSD. Now in CICS Explorer taking the definition view in...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Allow multiple selections in CICSplex Explorer view

We use CICS Explorer to view and manipulate CICS resource definitions in a large environment. The two options for selection are context and region. We need the ability to select multiple regions within a context. Not sure if this feature was delie...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 Pointer support creating CICS Business Events

The Customer has been running a PoC for creating CICS Business Events to be emitted to IBM Business Monitor. Unfortunately the customer is using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer does not work. ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Filter CSD by GRPLIST

If a CICS Region is selected, the CSD groups allow to be filtered in the following way:Retrieve the lists from the GRPLIST parameter in the CICS SIT and show only RDO groups which are contained.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

add checkbox selectors to resource views for multiple selection as alternative to pressing Shift or Ctrl

add checkbox selectors to table views that allow selecting multiple resources
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

search for orphaned groups

Search for orhpaned groups that are not part of a LIST
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration