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This RFE is alsosatisfied by CICS TS 5.4 which is generally available from today June 16th 2017.
For more information see the announcement letter https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS217-113
This RFE is also satisfied by CICS TS 5.4 which was announced on May 16th 2017 with a planned general availability date of June 16th 2017.
For more information see the announcement letter https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS217-113
Apar PI60388 (PTF UI42619 on CICS TS 5.1), (PTF UI42620 on CICS TS 5.2) and Apar PI60389 (PTF UI42574 on CICS T 5.3) provides system autoinstall capability for CICS LE program definitions. Program autoinstall does not need to be active.
Having applied the PTF, a CSD upgrade using DFHCURDM needs to be run. This will remove group CEE from list DFHLIST and DFH$IVPL. A new DFHLE group contains four definitions just for the CLER transaction. All other LE definitions will be system autoinstall when the relevant program is loaded.
Users should also remove group CEE from any user defined lists. The CEE group is no longer required having applied the PTF.
Apar PI60388 (PTF UI42619 on CICS TS 5.1), (PTF UI42620 on CICS TS 5.2) and Apar PI60389 (PTF UI42574) provides system autoinstall capability for CICS LE program definitions. Program autoinstall does not need to be active.
Having applied the PTF, a CSD upgrade using DFHCURDM needs to be run. This will remove group CEE from list DFHLIST and DFH$IVPL. A new DFHLE group contains four definitions just for the CLER transaction. All other LE definitions will be system autoinstall when the relevant program is loaded.
Users should also remove group CEE from any user defined lists. The CEE group is no longer required having applied the PTF.
Providing system autoinstall capability for LE definitions is a candidate for inclusion in a future release. The RFE is being moved into 'Planned for Future release' status. Please note:
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Providing system autoinstall capability for LE definitions is a candidate for inclusion in a future release.
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
This requirement has been rejected because looking at current plans, it is not likely that this would be implemented in the next two CICS TS releases, so correspondingly this requirement has being rejected. You have an opportunity to resubmit in eighteen months time if you wish it to be considered then.
We think that allowing autoinstall is risky and open to problems if LE make changes. We have no plans to do this. A better approach may be to raise a requirement on LE for them to consider spltting the CEE group into perhaps a base group and then language specific groups.
I agree.
I feel, CICS should be able to detect the current level of z/OS at startup and create the corresponding CICS resources when initializing Language Environment.