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We have assessed this requirement. We have no current plans for this to be implemented and so this requirement 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.
CICS Explorer provides this capability. You can filter a local files view by dsname if you wish. You can scope the request to a single region, a system group or the whole CICSplex by clicking on the region or plex in the left hand pane. Are you usng CICS Explorer?
We have many application development and Help Desk staff in our customer accounts who do not have CEMT access for security reasons. We also have those working in MRO environments where doing CEMT in the Terminal-Owning region they sign onto does not give them CEMT in the Application-Owning regions where the files are defined - even if they were restricted to only CEMT INQUIRE.
For these reasons, we need to provide another means for them to access file-related data. We have written a number of programs to use the SPI for INQUIRE on other resource types and the in-house transactions can be routed to the AORs. We have this working based on FCT/File name but we need to replace an existing process for which the customer's source code is long gone. That process allowed them to specify a dataset name and get the name of the File/FCT to which it was associated. Running with CEDF we do not see that the program is using the SPI to do INQUIRE START/NEXT/END processing to search thru the entire list of FCT entries for the specified dataset name. So we suspect that there is some other means to get this information directly, but the SPI doesn't give us this.
As you mention, CEMT can do this, even with wild-cards, but we have no way to know if CEMT is doing a search of all the FCT or TDQ entries.
Margaret
Are you aware that CEMT filtering already provides this capability. For example
CEMT INQUIRE FILE(*) DSN(JTILLI1.TILLING.FILEA) will show me all FCTs that are pointing at that dataset. You can also use wildcards, so
CEMT INQUIRE FILE(*) DSN(JTILLI1.TILLING.F*)
The same applies to TDQ
CEMT I TDQ(*) DDN(CEEMSG)