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Explorer

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Compatibility of CSMI with RSA Securid

On our environments, we have RACF interfaced with RSA Securid.RSA Securid provides us with a one-time-usage code to sign-in.When trying to connect with CICS Explorer (via CMCI) to our CICS on these LPAR, the same code is tried many times and our a...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer: Add a transaction to WLM TranGroup

Add a transaction to an existing WLM transaction group without need to inform the WLM Specification name. The intention is the adding action take effect in all Specification where that transaction group is associated to.(As equivalent in WUI Resou...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

CICS Explorer: Improve ‘Perform Install Operation' screen

Show the list of groups and systems but allow user to filter by a mask of the group name or system name; then show a shorter result set.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS Explorer: Favorites

1- Enable opening more than one tab for the same resource, simulating the WUI Favorites. Use case 1: Transactions – first tab ordered by ‘use count' and the second one by ‘region'. Use case 2: Transaction Class – first tab ordered by ‘Purgewhileqd...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

New System Event.......

Request for a new System Event: PROGRAMTo trigger an event whenever a program changes in status (ENA/DIS et c...)Today this function is availabla for FILE and TRAN, but it would be a great feature if this was also possible for PROGRAM.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

add "customize columns" option also to the menu bar

The "customize columns" option is currently only available as a small triangle in the right-hand corner of a resource view in CICS Explorer. It should also be possible to perform this from the menu bar.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Set z/OS Explorer file access to read-only as default

Add an option that sets the default opening mechanism for files and members to browse (i.e. read-only)
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Connection URL stored in Master Workspace

In CICS Explorer, the URL for load/export of connections is currently stored in the Master Workspace - it should be stored in the EXE, so that it is not a dependent piece of the Master Workspace.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

RFE for eclipse EFS OSGI bundle exporter

A CICS bundle is created with one OSGI bundle, the deployment to the ZFSdirectory regularly fails with an Eclipse message: java.net.socketTimeoutException: read timed out. My colleague uncompiled the IBM java class which is at the origin of thepro...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

CICS Explorer Event Processing Adapter for CICS TDQ

Would be good to have an EPadapter for CICS TDQueues - sim lar to the TS Queue Adapter which is already present in Explorer for CICS 5.1. TDQueus have more possibilities for use than TS queues for us.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered