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Explorer

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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.
over 5 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
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Select multiple, specific regions

Allow selecting multiple regions in the "CICS Explorer" view.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 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 ...
almost 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.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Perspective Import/Export

Ability to Import/Export Individual CICS Explorer (installation defined) Perspectives
almost 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...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 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.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions

Currently the CICS SIT parms (for combined, JCL, SYSIN etc) can only be displayed in an Attribute view for a single CICS region. We would like the ability to view / filter SIT parms for multiple regions similar to the way other Region Attributes c...
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