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IBM CICS Batch Application Control

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Add field containing CICS BAC batch request utility job name to XPI commarea passed to CICS BAC user exit programs.

We are converting from DADS to CBAC and need to know which batch job is sending the request to CICS. This information is used to ensure production and non-production jobs is not submitted to the wrong environment.
about 3 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 4 Delivered

Support wild cards in CICS Batch Application Control

In order to support the application environment for the Rainbow application we would require the CBAC product to support wild cards for file names.
about 11 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Delivered

CBAC to provide an option for RLS processing to avoid QUIESCE/UNQUIESCE processing

Provide an enhancement to the RLSOPTIONS parameter at the file or region level to bypass QUIESCE processing. For example add QUIESCE (which would be the default to mirror current behaviour) and NOQUIESCE to values for RLSOPTIONS for REGION or FILE...
about 10 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Delivered

CBAC ENABLE should set the DSN to UNQUIESCED state

When CBAC issues an ENABLE for a FILE it should UNQUIESCE the associated data set to avoid subsequent errors in the CICS region when implicit open is processed by CICS and access to the file by an application. From the CICS documentation fro CEMT ...
about 10 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Delivered

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