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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM CICS Batch Application Control
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 15, 2014

RELATED IDEAS

Allow CICS(APPLID) to be specified via the EXEC PARM for CBKBMAIN

Allow the target CICS region (or group of regions) to be specified via the PARM field of the EXEC card.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Batch Application Control

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Batch Application Control

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 21, 2015

    As discussed, there is a work around where you can use a concatenated SYSIN with the CICS BAC commands as one SYSIN dataset and a separate SYSIN PDS containing the APPLIDs for each
    of the 20 CICSPlexs you mentioned. The member name can then be passed via symbolic substitution for the PROC.

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