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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
This requirement is satisfied by CICS TS 5.2 which is generally available from June 13th 2014.
This requirement is satisfied by CICS TS 5.2 which was announced 7th April 2014 with a planned general availability date of June 13th 2014. For more information see the IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, V5.2 announcement letter
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS214-107
CICS TS 5.2 provides the ability to define a program resource and a webservice resource as part of an application bundle. It provides application versioning support.
This requirement is satisfied by CICS TS 5.2 which was announced 7th April 2014 with a planned general availability date of June 13th 2014. For more information see the IBM CICS Tools for z/OS, V5.2 announcement letter
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS214-107
CICS TS 5.2 provides the ability to define a program resource and a webservice resource as part of an application bundle. It provides application versioning support.
This is something we would like to address. The RFE is being moved into 'Planned for Future release' status. Please note:
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The underlying requirement is absolutely valid. We agree we've not provided any real advice on how to manage USS resources in CICS, especially from a Dev->QA->Production life-cycle point of view. This is something we would like to look at in future but we are likely to solve it a different way as the current architecture ties Platform and Application together i.e. I must reconfigure a Platform resource PIPELINE when any Applications is added/updated/removed. This is similar to the problem with a Java classpath. Secondly, there is no guarantee that WSDIR and DFHRPL/LIBRARY are in step. Thirdly it is an inhibiter to application versioning i.e. I can't have 2 versions of the same Application in the same Region.