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This RFE is satisfied by CICS CM 5.3 which is generally available from December 11th 2015.
This RFE is satisfied by CICS CM 5.3 which was announced on October 5th 2015 with a planned general availability date of December 11th 2015.
For more information see the announcement letter http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS215-364
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
Further comments from CICS CM development to help clarify the requirement:
CICS CM should introduce Transform Rule Groups, with contains a list of one or more Transform Rule Sets.
The path on a Migration Scheme could then name either a Transform Rule Set (which gets one set of rules) or a Transform Rule Group (which gets a succession of Transform Rule Sets each in turn).
As discussed during the conference call on 27th August:
We now understand this requirement clearly. It needs to be addressed using the concept of transformation groups which can then be shared across migration schemes.
Robert, thanks for submitting this RFE. We have discussed this with CICS CM development and they explained that the way transformation rule sets are associated with migration scheme paths is as currently architected in the product. To change this would require major re-architecture of this function. In CICS CM 5.2 we have provided REXX samples which show how the CICS CM API can be invoked in batch. These samples can be used to write details of the transformation rules to a file, customised for a different migration scheme path and then re-created using the REXX batch process. The samples provided in CICS CM 5.2 are the same ones that we provided to you previously in CICS CM 5.1. Depending on how often these rule sets are likely to change, this batch process can be used to customize these for particular migration paths.