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CICS Explorer needs consistent number decimal places in summary views

CICS Explorer needs to display averaged values in an aggregated view with a consistent number of decimal places. This could be a fixed or user specified value. Potentially if ALL average values in a field are exact numbers no decimal places could ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Resource Compare Feature

Provide a mechanism to compare resources and highlight the differences. This feature should allow us to compare a resource defined in CICS regions within the same CICSplex and across our environments. The second would require the support of multip...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Export/Import/Share the whole user environment

Provide a mechanism to export the whole of the users working environment. Today we can export import: • Connections• Resource Views Today you can also load connections from a shared location. It would be nice to be able to Export/Import the whole ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer not able to export information to a file

Display of the system parameter (SIT values) dosn't offer the possibility to export the content in a file to be later on managed.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Need option to copy connections and userids when creating new CICS Explorer workspace

When creating a new work space in CICS explorer, user is given the option to copy the work bench layout and the working sets but not the connections or users meaning that they have to be manually entered again when using the new work space.
over 5 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 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 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...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

compare resources

Provide a mechanism to compare multiple resources and highlight the differences. It would be very useful to be able to easily compare multiple different resources between the two regions.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

readonly access

Provide a mechanism for me to connect in a read-only way. This could be a separate connection definition or a toggle between view/edit. Regardless, it needs to be clear which mode is currently in use.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

visualize mapping of resources to groups to lists to regions

Provide a visualization of the relationship between RDO resources, groups, lists and CICS regions
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration