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CICS Explorer JWS Deployment - Ability to package a JRE in the .jnlp file

We would like the ability to package the JRE in the JWS .jnlp file for CICS Explorer Deployment
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

POST ICE to show transaction id

For any request type ICE type POST, the TransID is not displayed in CICS Explorer - please display to show like Omegamon does
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Explorer does not fix file buffers after a files strings are updated

When you do a copy of a file definition in CE and you change the strings it does NOT fix the buffers, but doing it through CEDA does, is there a reason why?
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Ability for CICS Explorer Administrators to disable default Menu Options and Perspectives.

Specifically we would like our CICS Explorer Administrator to be able to modify the default .exe file such that the “FILE” Menu “Switch Workspace” option was disabled. This is critical for CICS Explorer Deployments where the .exe file is shared an...
almost 12 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 are using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer dows not work....
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Add 64-bit CICS Explorer for Linux

Currently,IBM CICS Explorer for Linux is 32-bit only. If running a "pure" 64-bit Linux operating system (OS), such as "Slackware for the x86_64 architecture", or Slackware64 for short (see http://www.slackware.com/), the current CICS Explorer for ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

SHARED WORKSPACE IN CICSEXPLORER

We need the possibility to share the CICS EXPLORER workspace across different users. It means that we can have different people that read/write resources on workspace at the same time. So a sort of lock should be implemented.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

ADDITIONAL MESSAGE DETAILS NOT EXPOSED TO EXPLORER STATUS BAR

Although a full XML body with detailed message information displays in the Explorer's internal trace, it is not exposed in the readily viewable Explorer status bar. The full XML body should be exposed to the user for ALL messages having an associa...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Perspective Import/Export

Ability to Import/Export Individual CICS Explorer (installation defined) Perspectives
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

IBM Support Site

Explorer HELP to open Browser window.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration