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Status Not under consideration
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Created by Guest
Created on Dec 19, 2012

PL/1 Pointer support creating CICS Business Events

The Customer has been running a PoC for creating CICS Business Events to be emitted to IBM Business Monitor. Unfortunately The customer are using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer dows not work. After deploying the Eventbindings and installing them, the events are not captured, we only see '*' in the fields where we expected the real data to be represented.

Idea priority High
  • 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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    Nov 21, 2013

    This RFE is being closed and replaced by RFE 41927. In the new RFE the references to the customer name have been removed, meaning the RFE can be made public and so visible to other customers to review, and comment on.

  • Guest
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    Jan 23, 2013

    The two step implementation will be considered separately. These are candidates for inclusion in a future release.

  • Guest
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    Jan 21, 2013

    In the PoC where we discovered this issue, we tried to do both. So the requirement is for both. But if it will be a 2 step implementation, we could probably do the filtering in IBM Business Monitor, but then again, we would capture more data than actually needed to be able to do that.

  • Guest
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    Jan 7, 2013

    To enable us to scope/size this requirement so it can be considered for possible inclusion in a future release of CICS TS could you please let us
    know whether Danske Bank need the ability to both filter on and capture indirect data or whether they just need the ability to capture the indirect
    data in emitted events ? . That is do they need to refer to this indirect data when defining Application Data predicates (see the Filtering tab in
    CICS Event Binding Editor) to control when events are to be emitted, e.g.only emit an event if the character string at offset X in the control block addressed by a pointer at offset Y in the COMAREA equals "ABC" ?