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Explorer

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CICS Explorer - SM Perspective and Automatic Refresh

There was an RFE 113744, now marked as 'Delivered', which requested automatic refresh capability for CICS Explorer views. If this was implemented, I cannot find documentation for enabling it in CICS Explorer. If it has not been implemented, I woul...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Resource view - Quick filter on the Region

In the CICS Explorer resource view, you can apply quick filters on the displayed columns. But you cannot apply a quick filter on the Region Column.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer - Perform UNASSIGN Dialog Needs "Force" Option

In the "CICSPLEX Definitions" table, when I right-click on a CICSPlex and select "Unassign from CMAS...", there is no "Force" option on the resulting dialog box. Can the Force option be added to Explorer? Doc for unassigning: https://www.ibm.com/s...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Add ability to perform actions in Aggregated Explorer Views

I am using the CICS Regions view in CICS Explorer for illustration but, to my knowledge, this applies to all Explorer aggregated views. With multiple CICS regions selected, performing a right click gives a selection list of actions that can be per...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

WUI : Display a POP up message for Confirmation

Hello Hello,On WUI EYUVC1280I view, when a click is made on the "Update" button and the update concerns a field from the "Workload Management (WLM)" section, will it be possible to display a pop-up message requesting a confirmation of the change.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

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 Explorer Install requires additional function

When installing BAS definitions using CICS Explorer, the user can select which CICS regions to perform the install on but has no ability to specify additional options. (See attachment "Explorer Install"). However on the WUI several additional opti...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

CICS Explorer: Option to leave BATCHREP view open

When using the new "Perform Batched Repository-Update Job Operation" it would be good to have an option to keep the window open in order to submit another request without having to "Definitions ->Submit Batch...." every time.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future 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...
almost 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 ...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration