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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
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Created by Guest
Created on May 15, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

CICS Resource Compare Feature

Provide a mechanism to compare resources and highlight the differences. This feature should allow us to compare a resource defined in CICS regions within the same CICSplex and across our environments. The second would require the support of multiple CPSM and/or CMCI connections. (this will be raised in another RFE)
Today when resolving issues in our test environment or between multiple CICSplexes, we are frequently required to compare resource definitions between different regions.

Currently, we select the first region, double click on a single resource we want to compare, select the second region, double click the resource, rearrange the views so that the resource views are side by side, then hope we don't overlook any differences.

This would be required to be driven for Operation View resources and Resource Definition views.

There is a similar RFE already opened but waiting on more information.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123602

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jul 23, 2020

    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 RFE requests function that is already partially supplied by the CICS CM tool. An approach to break this down further could be to raise an RFE for a simple compare editor in CICS Explorer, and an RFE against CICS CM for the more advanced comparison features.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 13, 2020

    I would like to extend this request to include resource definitions that are not yet defined, but are "staged" in a DFHCSDUP input deck, DFHDPLOY XML input file, or installed but from different zFS directories. The feature would include the ability to provide a set of installation-specific "rules" that could be used to audit and potentially fail an update that was being provided in the form of a DFHCSDUP input deck or DFHDPLOY XML input.

    Use Case: A change is being propagated up through the hierarchy, either via DFHCSDUP or DFHDPLOY which also contains a set of resource definitions. Having this feature would facilitate:
    1) Providing a "what changed" audit trail associated with the resource definition change.
    2) Allowing enforcement of installation-specific policies related to resource definitions, such as issuing a "warning" message for new programs/transactions whose resource definitions specify 24-bit storage, failing changes to existing resources that would alter significant attributes such as changing previously existing threadsafe programs to non-threadsafe, changing the recoverability or allowed access types (read, update, etc.) attributes for file(s).
    (I do realize that some of these functions are provided in part by the Configuration Manager product, however as currently implemented CM does not fit well in large shops consisting of many regions spanning multiple Sysplex's and running out of multiple CSD's)

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 8, 2020

    Also useful would be a means of easily reporting on resource definitions added/changed after a given date/time, so that no resource changes are overlooked/dropped during a release upgrade. This could be provided in the form of a sample DFHCSDUP EXTRACT exit program that would buffer the resource attributes until the CHANGETIME is passed, and then checked against the input watershed date/time.

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