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Status Not under consideration
Categories Explorer
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 6, 2014

Enhance Bundle-Deployment with CICS explorer

When developing Java applications for CICS, at the end a bundle must be exported to z/FS. The export will occur with mode fields 750, which means in most cases, that CICS is not allowed to read the bundle directory and its resources.
It might be very helpful, if an optional field could be provided, where the user can specify mode fields

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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    Apr 28, 2015

    This requirement has been evaluated. Looking at current plans, it is not likely that this would be implemented in the next two CICS TS releases, so correspondingly this requirement is being rejected. You have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be considered then.

    The USS umask should be used with the FTP daemon to control exported file permission settings, and this is set in the FTPDATA in TCPPARMS see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halz001/ftpcasumask.htm

    Note also with the CICS TS 5.3 Open Beta the CICS Build Toolkit can be used to automate the deployment of Java applications.

  • Guest
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    Nov 11, 2014

    This enhancement avoids failures and outages. We also would like this change in CICS Explorer.