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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 19, 2012

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Enhance EP support to include "implicitly referenced" API fields as well as API calls performed by mirror program

Current EP behavior:
1. Currently, the Event Processing (EP) actual event supported fields are only those fields which have explicitly referenced in the CICS API call.
Other API data which are not part of the API call are not available to the EP Adapter (EPA).
2. Although optional API fields might not be available during execution time, the EP editor does not warn the user about it.
3. An optional API field that was referenced as a source field for event data extraction but actually not available to EPA at run time because it was not referenced in the API call,
is still referenced by the Event Descriptor container, although its related data container (e.g. DFHEP.DATA.nnnnn) does not exist.
This behavior leads to an error (Resp=110, Resp2=10) when the EPA is trying to get it.
4. API calls from mirror program (DFHMIRS) are not available to EP at all.
Requested enhancements:
1. Make "implicitly referenced" fields be available to the EPA.
E.g. on RETURN from LINK/XCTL make available the returned COMMAREA and Channel+Containers.
2. On the event editor, please warn the user about referenced fields which might not be available to EPA at run time.
3. Please ensure consistency between Event Descriptor container and its related DATA containers.
4. Please make mirror program API calls available for EP mechanism.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 7, 2020

    This requirement has been re-assessed. It is not likely that this will be implemented in the next 12-24 months and so it 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
    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 - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server

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

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