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Delivered: APAR PH58978, 22 Mar 2024, PTFs UI96116, UI96117, UI96118
APAR PH58978 has been created and ready to be tested. Please open a ticket in support.ibm.com referencing the enhancement so that we can deliver the APAR for testing. Also please refer to me "Jamie Parsaie" so that IBM support can reach out to me. Thanks
Yes, the proposed shortened change package menu would suit our requirements.
Hi there, thanks for raising this idea.
Suppression of the External Reference (EXTREF) field on the change package ISPF menu panel (CCVPPKGE) is not supported by CICS CM Development, as this field maybe in use for multiple customers. However, CICS CM Development understands that a primary reason for EXTREF field suppression was to allow the display to fit onto a 32x80 screen size, without the need for downwards scrolling. CICS CM Devolopment proposes another solution to meet a “screen size” requirement.
CICS CM Development propose that PREV/NEXT page scrolling (e.g. right/left scrolling) be introduced to enable the user to toggle to a shortened menu display panel. Experimentation of the short menu indicates that the display will fit onto a 24x80 screen size. The shortened menu takes the 12 processing option description lines, and reduces these to 3 lines using horizontal, abbreviated option terms such as 1. Package, 2. List and ending with 12. Notes. The shortened panel retains all the functionality of the long panel, and the dialog will return the user’s menu panel preference.
Please let me know if you have further comment.