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This RFE is satisfied 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
A new Information Source of "MESSAGE_TEXT" is provided by the new message system rule.
This RFE is 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
A new Information Source of say "MESSAGE_TEXT" is provided by the new message system rule.
This is something we would like to address. The RFE is being moved into 'Planned for Future release' status. Please note:
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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 is a candidate for a future release.
Yes, providing an option to capture the full text of the original CICS or CPSM message would assist here and meet the general needs of this RFE. Thank you!
The concatenation of Information sources to build customized messages is something we would expect to be carried our by a custom adapter not the event runtime. The event runtime is designed to do minimal formatting to help keep event emission times to a minimum. Also, even with the support to build a composite information source the event data would still have to be passed to a custom adapter to build and emit the WTO so providing such support would not eliminate the need to write a custom adapter altogether.
Would a new Information Source of say "MESSAGE_TEXT" where the new Information source provides the full text of the original CICS or CPSM message assist in reducing the number of information sources that have to be defined?. We could also provide new sample custom adapter to show how users can take the information sources from a MESSAGE system event and build a customized user message. The code required in the adapter is very similar regardless of the message for which an event is defined so the new sample could be used as a starting point when writing a new custom adapter.