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Explorer

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CICS Explorer Scope Selection Filters (SHARE requirement SSCICS11007)

Currently the "CICSplex Explorer" and "CICSplex Repositories" views are used in the Navigation frame to control scope. Due to the number of entries (especially in the CICSplex Repositories view) our users would like to be able to use a filter (ex:...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 9 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Whitelist Version Control Disabled Indicator

If there is an issue with the new CICS Explorer Version Control Whitelist, rather than let any version connect we want it to not allow any version to connect.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer - Add WUI FEPI Operations Views

Currently the WUI Operations Menu Contains a link to the FEPI Operations Views (Connections, Nodes, Pools, Property Sets, and Targets). We want functionally equalivant views available in CICS Explorer
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS Explorer Timeout

There is a need for additional security in place in these times of cyber attacks became so often. Therefore, according to our IT Security Standards there should be a timeout set for all user sessions. This is meant by any user driven session to an...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Prevent mutually exclusive predicates in Event Specification

The Explorer tooling allows CICS Event Specifications to use mutually-exclusive predicates as filters, creating a specification that will never fire. This should be updated in the Explorer to prevent such scenarios (or CICS enhanced to prevent/fai...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Show dump dataset info in CICS Explorer

Add new functionality to CICS Explorer so that I can see which dump dataset is the active one and if its open or not. I want to know if the auto switch is set also.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Delivered

Enhance CICS Explorer to provide more statistics for DB2CONN POOL data.

In Explorer DB2CONN we have available TCB LIMIT, Current TCB's, Threadlimit, THWM.Please add Total Thread Waits,Total number of calls using Pool Threads. , Total number of Pool Thread Creates . . Total number of Pool Thread Reuses. . . Total numbe...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 7 Delivered

Merge Views, Preferences - share customized views

Example: I have set up a customized view with columns the way I want them and I want to share it with someone else. I don't want to share a Perspective, just the View. I don't want to replace their View, but want to merge my customizations into th...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

CMCI connection parm override to turn on analyzer

Need a parameter available to be able to turn on the analyzer for a CMCI connection in CICS Explorer
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Add sort by column to CICS Explorer

It would be very nice if we could sort the tabular displays in CICS Explorer (e.g. Transaction definitions) by any of the displayed columns. For example, display the information normally first, then when the user clicks on a column header, the dis...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered