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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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DFHPI1008 diagnostic enhancements

Message DFHPI1008 includes some limited diagnostics to help identify the cause of a problem. Additional details would help to pinpoint the specific cause. e.g.==> DFHPI1008 03/01/2014 14:25:36 PRTICICS 00748 XML generation failed because of inc...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Statistcs Report - Please add Total allocates for IRC EXCI Connections

Please add the 'Total Allocates' number field for IRC EXCI connections also like XM/VTAM APPC etc in statistics reports. Currently the field is always zero and not applicable.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS Administrative Interface on mobile device

The CICS Explorer provides a graphical interface for administrating CICS. With all the recent advances with mobile in the last couple of years, it would be good to have a graphical administrative interface that works on mobile devices. Such as iPa...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Color code view tabs to distinguish more easily between operations and definitions

Allow to assign colours to the tabs of views to clearly distinguish between operations and definitions. In the WUI this has not been an issue before because the WUI was not able to access the CSD. Now in CICS Explorer taking the definition view in...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to CMAS to notify other tasks a CICSPlex is being removed

Currently if a CMAS is the processing of removing a CICSPlex other tasks within the CICSPlex are able to determine this before the processing is completed meaning they do not start activities that later fail because the CICSPlex is no longer avail...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow multiple selections in CICSplex Explorer view

We use CICS Explorer to view and manipulate CICS resource definitions in a large environment. The two options for selection are context and region. We need the ability to select multiple regions within a context. Not sure if this feature was delie...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 Pointer support creating CICS Business Events

The Customer has been running a PoC for creating CICS Business Events to be emitted to IBM Business Monitor. Unfortunately the customer is using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer does not work. ...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Set prefix to IPIC connection

CTG is connecting (IPIC mode) to 3 AOR, same transactions exécuting on this aor with TSQ sharing. Sometimes we have problèms with TSQname (TERMID,TRANID,xxx) because same transaction executing on two AOR with the same termid. We need possibility t...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Filter CSD by GRPLIST

If a CICS Region is selected, the CSD groups allow to be filtered in the following way:Retrieve the lists from the GRPLIST parameter in the CICS SIT and show only RDO groups which are contained.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

add checkbox selectors to resource views for multiple selection as alternative to pressing Shift or Ctrl

add checkbox selectors to table views that allow selecting multiple resources
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration