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Status Not under consideration
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 22, 2012

support wildcard characters in transaction group in CPSM WLM

In CPSM WLM, when we want to define transactions in transaction group. We have add transaction one by one. ICBC has several thousands transactions, it takes long time to add them one by one. It also has the risk that forgetting to define some of them which may affect product environment. ICBC request CICS add supporting of wildcard characters in transaction names in transaction group. eg add 'ABC*' into one transaction group, then all the transactions starting with ABC belong to this transaction group

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jan 14, 2019

    This requirement has been re-evaluated. We have no current plans for this to be implemented and so this requirement is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.

  • Guest
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    May 31, 2017

    I voted for the RFE, because it is very inconvenient to add each transaction id to a transaction group whenever you define a new transaction in CICS and want to use workload routing mechanisms. If transaction groups would support wildcard characters you could easily define transaction groups like 'X*' to add each transaction starting with an 'X' to this transaction group automatically.

  • Guest
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    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 - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server

  • Guest
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    Oct 16, 2014

    I voted this for customer CCB in China. CCB wants to use WLM function workload separation by transaction ID, and they found they have to add transaction id to a transaction group one by one. They have thousands of transactions in their system and it's easy to miss some one in this process. So they want the transaction group can support wildcard characters.

  • Guest
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    Feb 24, 2012

    This is something we would consider for a future release.