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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 Configuration Manager
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Enterprise Tooling
Product - CICS Configuration Manager
Note that this function is already available in the product and was delivered via APAR PM80814 for CICS CM 5.1. This APAR provided many enhancements to CICS CM 5.1. One of the enhancements was "New exit points for Install, Newcopy or Discard processing".
The CICS Configuration Manager server introduced new user exit points just before performing an install, a discard, or a newcopy action for a resource. These are known as operations qualification exit points. You can attach your own CICS programs to these exit points. The CICS Configuration Manager server passes to your programs the details of the action that it is about to perform, such as the name, type, and group of the resource definition, the change package if applicable, and the target system or CICSPlex SM TargetScope for processing. Your programs can use these details to decide whether to allow or disallow the action. The details can include optional qualification exit data, freeform text that the user specifies when requesting the action from the ISPF online panels or the CCVBMAIN batch utility. Your programs can use this parameter data to allow or disallow the action based on your own custom site-specific data.
A suite of SCCVSAMP sample members aid the development of the exit point programs. Sample CCVXPOQ contains instructions on how to build a parametric (rules-based) exit program, whereas sample CCVXOPQC provides a simple, ready to go exit.