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CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS

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Cross-configuration, cross-sysplex reporting

The various reporting functions, especially those that generate comparison reports, should have the ability to create reports that span configurations, servers, and even sysplexes. For example it should be possible to generate a comparison report ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow user data field for every RDO entry

We currently use our internal application group names associated with change and incident management in CATS APLid, as we are doing POC with CICS CM, we really want a user data field in CM so we can provide flexibility to our user/developer commun...
over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

INFO/INFO2 codes in Config Manager error messages should be documented

Some messages that the CICS Configuration Manager product produces contain codes, referred to as INFO and INFO2 codes, that are not documented and require involvement from IBM support before they can be interpreted, understood, and a solution for ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Hide/Show External Reference field on Package Menu panel

Add a configurable setting/feature to Show/Hide External Reference field on Change Package Menu panel. This allows for any customization done on External Reference field to be switched to a recently added new field (Previous Exit Text) in APAR PH5...
5 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3

CM Server to CM Server Connectivity

Having CM Server to CM Server connectivity to exchange the data(in XML or other formats) instead of shipping the data between CM servers manually using FTP and writing CM EXITS
almost 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Flat file input for RANA exit instead of recompile process

Request to allow RANA exit to read a flat file as input and perform actions instead of modifying the EXIT each time with changes and recompiling it.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Save list of IP address and port details on CM main screen

We access CM servers of multiple environments from single Lpar. Thus we have keep changing the IP/PORT of remote servers we want to connect to. This is becoming tedious job as we are introducing more and more CM servers. We like to have a option t...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Single view for all packages(CM) across all sysplexes

Hi,We can only see all the CICS CM packages that are belongs to a single sysplex. But if we have multiple sysplex environments, it become very difficult to go to each sysplex and check for the CICS CM Package to install every day. This gets compli...
over 6 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Associate FTP connection to CICS CM connection

Associate an FTP and/or z/OSMF connection with a CICS Configuration Manager connection to ensure batch jobs generated by the CICS CM views are submitted to the host z/OS where the CICS CM server is running. Current behavior is for the Submit butto...
about 9 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Compare Function: allow for attribute value masking when using the CHECKSUM List option

Provide the ability for masking and/or wild carding of individual attributes when using the CHECKSUM LIST option.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

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