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This requirement has been re-assessed. It is not likely that this will be implemented in the next 12-24 months and so it is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.
An alternative approach to this requirement against CICS Explorer is to use the CICS Management Client Interface (CMCI) to request the CICSSystemParameter operational resource. This will return the SIT parameters for the CICS regions in the defined scope and you can then output this into a format suitable for use with a diff tool or spreadsheet to query differences. This could be automated using the Ansible CICS collection. For example by modifying the example report.yml playbook to request the CICSSystemParameter resource instead of CICSRegion.
Links:
1. Using CMCI to query system initialization parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.6.0/reference-system-programming/cmci/clientapi_getsysparms.html
2. Ansible CICS collection example report.yml - https://github.com/IBM/z_ansible_collections_samples/blob/master/cics/cmci/reporting/report.yml
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