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Explorer

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SPI Audit retrofitted to CTS 4.2 environment.

Rrequesting the SPI Audit function be ported from CICS TS 5.1 to CICS TS 4.2. Without an auditing function for changes made though CICS explorer, we could not promote this product as a viable software solution to controlling our CICS environment. ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

More meaningful resource attribute names

The resource attribute names in the CICS Explorer can have very cryptic meanings. When you are looking to add an attribute to the view, it is difficult to know which one to select due to the way it was named. I know the dynamic help can be used to...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs method to change password

Unable to change expired password when using CICS Explorer. A message is issued at the bottom of the window that the password is expired:"IZE0106E Connect failed with error "Password expired" (Winmvs A0 RW)" (Data in brackets is the name of the co...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Cics Explorer Virtual Reality Support - Operators View

At the moment there is only omegamon to visualise running transactions in cics and to see the cics environment (CICSPLEX) this is very difficult to do it in a simple way, because there is too much information in it and you need to be a specialist ...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Cics explorer Enhancement of application activation

The cics explorer we have at the moment is not able to activate and deactivate one ore multiple applications at the same time and move the applicaitons with one step to available state. This habit is very bad, we have to click very often.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Multiple CICSPLEX view for CICS Explorer

Requirement:Ability for CICS Explorer to connect to, display, and manage resources in multiple regions simultaneously regardless of which LPAR and/or SYSPLEX might contain those regions.  Permit logical groupings of regions by function withou...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer be provided with an ‘Interrupt' or ‘Cancel' button

Provide the CICS Explorer be with an ‘Interrupt' or ‘Cancel' button, for data requests that were incorrectly defined
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view AIDs (Automatic Initiate Descriptors)

Omegamon/CICS has the ability to view ICE and AID control blocks but Explorer only contains a View for ICEs. We would like an Operations View added to Explorer to view AIDs.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Cannot use a filter of blanks in CICS Explorer

CICS Explorer allows filters in views both in stored view and as "Quick Filters". However attemping to use one to show (or exclude) a character field that is blanks does not work. I have tried a quick experiment with the CMCI interface specifying ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

When set program or install resources, CICS Explorer can go onto the next region without stopping if failure occurs

When using CICS Explorer to set new program or install new resources, it currently stops at the failure region. It should be able to go onto the next region without stopping.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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