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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 23, 2012

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BAS target/related regions can not currently overlap

When deploying a dynamic resource with BAS, and specify both a Target Scope (for Remote installs) and a Related Scope (for local installs), CPSM does not allow any overlap, where the same CICS region is a member of the Target Scope and Related Scope. The customer's desired resolution is that when a region is in both the Target Scope and Related Scope, that the Related Scope would take priority, and CPSM would remove it from the Target Scope list of regions prior to doing the install.

While a customer may manually define additional groups so that no overlap exists, it diminishes the usefulness of BAS, in that for large shops it can take more effort to administer the CICS groups by BAS than it does by leaving the resources defined by CICS RDO in the CSD.

This restriction doesn't make sense from the user's perspective. For small shops with small numbers of regions, it isn't that big a deal to go and define more CICS groups to get around the restriction. But then, how many small shops are actually using BAS? It's the large shops that take advantage of it? In large CICSPlexes, having to define more CICS groups to code around this makes administration of resources more labor intensive, not less.

Idea priority Medium
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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

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