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Created by Guest
Created on May 15, 2020

CICS Explorer - The ability to set the Contxt and Scope fields

We require the ability to set our Context and Scope in a quick and efficient manner.

Expanding the tree view in the CICS Explorer and the CICSPlex Repository views is not acceptable. In a large complex environment there can be thousands of entries.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Jun 17, 2022
    Support for this is also provided CICS Explorer 5.5.23 which is generally available from 17th June 2022.
  • Guest
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    Apr 5, 2022
    Support for this is also provided in CICS TS 6.1 which is announced today April 5th and will GA June 17th 2022.

    See Announcement letter https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS222-092/index.html&request_locale=en
  • Guest
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    Jun 23, 2021

    This RFE has been addressed by new functionality shipped with CICS Explorer 5.5.0.17 which is now available.

    A new text entry facility for scoping requests has been added to the CICSplex Explorer view in CICS Explorer. It allows specification of a CICSplex name and a system group or individual CICS system and will prompt with possible values. This allows easier navigation across multiple CICSplexes and across a large number of CICS regions to facilitate quicker scoping of requests than can be achieved by scrolling through possible options and clicking.

  • Guest
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    May 20, 2021

    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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  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2020

    This is a candidate for a future release.

  • Guest
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    Jul 13, 2020

    We've been having a bit of a think about this. One of our questions is whether people are generally only interested in a small subset of available plexes, or regions? Do people commonly have a small set of things that concern them? Perhaps there's a way of filtering what's available to make it more sensible for a particular user?

    Or if there's just one thing people would generally be interested in (e.g. a single system group) then there are options around giving better defaults when people start up.

    It would be great to hear a little bit more around the use case for a user and whether they're always interested in the same things.