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Status Not under consideration
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 7, 2013

Automatic Platform MRO Connections

If you create a Platform in the new Cloud Environment and I add Cics Regions to the Platform, I have to connect every Region by an MRO Connection. This is not very useful, as by connecting the a region to a platform I already know for sure this regions belong together and should be conected everything else makes no sense.
In my opinion this type of MRO Connection is not between Cics-Cics it is more a Cics-Platform Connection.
The benefit of this would be that you than can arrange a few Cics-Regions very loose. Espezially, when you have a lot small Regions and want to expand them with a platform you then would not need a second Cics for every Platform. You just need one which you can use for every platform. The platform itself then would know where to route.

Idea priority Medium
  • 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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    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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    Jun 21, 2013

    After a discussion with Erich Hopfgarten and Tobias Leicher I want to add, that an automatic connection should be separated from other platforms.

    In other words, if you have two plattforms using the same Cics Regions. the application A on platform A must be completely separated form aplication B on platform B. Only aplications on the same platforms are allowed to know each other.

    I think this was not clear after my starting post.

  • Guest
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    Jun 11, 2013

    It is assumed that the regions which comprise a Platform are interconnected in some way so that Application components deployed to different region types can successfully communicate using say DPL. It makes sense that this should be configured at the Platform level and expressed in terms of inter-region type communication as all regions within a region type are intended to be clones. That way regions can be added to a Platform or started within a region type in response to workload demand and connected without further configuration.

  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2013

    Attachment (Description): This should show, that when no MRO connection in a cloud Cics is needed, you can reuse a Cics Region in many Platforms very easy.