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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
Well, seems like this would be a basic function of RDO (batch); can add + remove stuff to a list, but not check. What if an invalid name is added to a list shared by many regions and fails later at startup (not good).
I can write a 3270 script to parse the output of a CEDA CHECK(L1,L2,L3,L4), I don't see buying a new product for this facility,
Thanks for your consideration of this enhancement,
We have no plans to provide this function as it is already available in CICS Configuration Manager (CICS CM).
The CICS CM deployment analysis function provides this capability. This CICS CM function can be invoked using the ISPF interface or using the CICS CM plug-in to the CICS Explorer. When using the CICS CM deployment analysis function in the CICS CM plug-in, CICS CM builds the CHECK JCL and the user can specify the group lists that are to be checked. The ISPF function also provides the CHECK function. CICS CM also provides a batch facility to run various deployment analysis reports including the CHECK report.