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New Event Processing - System Event - Terminal monitoring

EP System Event for Terminals
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

READQ TS with CicsExplorer

Today when right-clicking a TS-Queue in CicsExplorer I can select the actions 'Open', 'Delete' or 'Copy'. I would be very useful if there were an action 'Readq' (like CECI READQ), to show the content of a TS-Queue item.
over 9 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 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Add EYUVC1294W (Region Timeout) Information Detail

Currently if a region in a Plex is having an issue that causes either a GUI display or CPSM Batch API timeout the WUI displays a EYUVC1294W message that details which region is causing the problem. We do not have a messagelike that in CICS Explore...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer ability GLUE Disable / Enable or TRUE

To new copy a program; need to Disable and Enable in the new copy process; presently do it this way: CECI DISABLE PROG(U8D1XMEO) EXITALL <<--can't be done in Explorer CECI SET PROGRAM(U8D1XMEO) NEWCOPY <<-can be done in Explorer CECI...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 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.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs full "import/export" capability

CICS Explorer should have the ability to retrieve/"download" bundle definitions (in fact, all definitions) from a live, running region (presumably from the CSD or CPSM repository) in a format that would allow the bundle to be edited/revised and re...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Bundle-Deployment with CICS explorer

When developing Java applications for CICS, at the end a bundle must be exported to z/FS. The export will occur with mode fields 750, which means in most cases, that CICS is not allowed to read the bundle directory and its resources.It might be ve...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Auto refresh for CICS Explorer displays

For various displays on CICS Explorer, e.g. alerts, running regions, current tasks, I'd like to be able to get the display to automatically refresh at a set interval, in the same way as you can in CPSM and MQ Explorer.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

manage several CICSPlex at same time in CICS explorer

Assuming there are several CMCI port which belong to different CICSPlex. currently, CICS explorer can only connect to one CMCI port. User want to connect to several CMCI port at same time and manage the resources in different CICSPlex.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration