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Status Not under consideration
Categories Explorer
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 5, 2014

CICS Explorer and CECI functionality

CECI functionality is currently absent from CICS Explorer.

Idea priority Low
  • 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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    Apr 1, 2015

    This requirement has been evaluated. We have no plans to provide this support. The requirement is being rejected.

  • Guest
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    Nov 13, 2014

    CECI is a crucial set of commands for debugging. For example:
    - it is needed to disable third party exits to get a clean dump for IBM problem analysis.
    - it is needed to read the contents of queues
    - it allows for reading VSAM files from within CICS

  • Guest
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    Nov 12, 2014

    CICS Explorer is not meant to be a replacement for all CICS supplied transactions. What is the usecase here?