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Status Future consideration
Categories Explorer
Created by Guest
Created on May 12, 2020

The ability for opening multiple host connections concurrently

We often need to connect multiple host environments concurrently in daily job. z/os connect does not have this ability. If we want to connect another host via cmci or cicsplex SM connection we automatically get logged out from the existing one.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2020

    This is a candidate for a future release

  • Guest
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    May 20, 2020

    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
    Component - Explorer
    Operating system - Windows
    Source - Client

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM Explorer for z/OS
    Component - Other
    Operating system - Windows
    Source - None