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Add to Cics policies the ability to include or exclude specific transaction names.

We need to specify Cics policies to cancel transactions that exceed a specific response time, excluding some long-running ones or those with another allowed threshold. For example, all A* transactions can last for 5 seconds at most, except for ABC...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Future consideration

Add CICS Task Runtime, Explorer and Task Resource Table, as in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CICSTS-I-83

Add Task Runtime to CICS Explorer and the CICS Task Table. This was done for Policies some time ago, it would be good to have in Explorer, so to be able to view the long runners, prior to setting up a New Policy Definition. The Policy part was don...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Functionality already exists

It would be nice to be able to group multiple CICSPlexes in explorer as a context

We have multiple CICSPlexes in our non production environment, all connected to the same maintenance point CMAS. It would be nice to be able to group multiple CICSPlexes into a group and specify the group as the CONTEXT in explorer. I can think of...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Not under consideration

Please Provide a SYSPARM table view in CICS Explorer

I am opening this RFE to bring attention to and focus the request in RFE 100754. The WUI's view of the SYSPARM table at Home > CICS Operations > CICS region operations views > System parameters is MUCH more friendly than what is currently...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Future consideration

Please provide a CICS Explorer Operation view for Partner-Definitions

Hello everyone, In the CICS Explorer you can display the partner definitions under Definitions. Unfortunately, you cannot display the partner definitions under Operations, i.e. the active definitions are not displayed. In the WUI you could display...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Future consideration

CICS policies - Suspend time policy rule for user task

CICS policies currently don't have an option to take action on an user task based on Suspend time. Even though RTA has this setup , cost of implementing RTA and its process is not as efficient as CICS policies. Hence Im making a request to IBM to ...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Planned for future release

Display what Transaction Group the Transaction Already exists when adding it to a different group.

When adding a transaction to a Workload Specification Group, that already exists. It displays the following: "Transactions cannot be in two Transactions Groups. Take from existing group(s)?" Is it possible for it to display what Workload Specifica...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Future consideration

View SYSPARM data across multiple CICS regions simultaneously

Allow CICS region SYSPARM data to be displayed and filtered, across multiple CICS regions, just as is available in the CPSM WUI.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Not under consideration

Launch CICS transactions from CICS Explorer / IDz

Eclipse has built-in support for launching applications with normal execution or for debug (launch and debug configurations). It is possible today to setup debug profiles for CICS applications from Eclipse but starting the actualy transaction does...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Auto Refresh

Enable CICS Explorer to have Auto Refresh like the CPSM WUI.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer Not under consideration

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