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CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS

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CICS CM CHECKSUM in package display

In CICS CM when viewing the components of a package via 3.x.2, displaying the checksum with packaged components would save customers time by allowing them to verify checksums of components in a package at one time.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Package Reuse with a Resource/Command Preview & Delete Option

Enable Options to automatically clear the resource/commands from a package that is being reused along with a preview of resource/commands that is already present in the package
over 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Configuration Manager should use the CPSM infrastructure if available

Currently, using CM to perform "install" operations for configurations that are CSD based (as opposed to BAS based) requires defining connections to all possible target regions for the installation operations and also running the CM agent code in ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Delete SCHEME should have a FORCE option to ignore RI Check errors

The deletion of a Migration Scheme suffers RI Check failed because a PSCHEME record references the Scheme. To delete the Scheme, you first must delete the related change packages. However, the customer may want to keep the change packages for reus...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow user data field for every RDO entry

We currently use our internal application group names associated with change and incident management in CATS APLid, as we are doing POC with CICS CM, we really want a user data field in CM so we can provide flexibility to our user/developer commun...
about 6 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CM Server to CM Server Connectivity

Having CM Server to CM Server connectivity to exchange the data(in XML or other formats) instead of shipping the data between CM servers manually using FTP and writing CM EXITS
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Flat file input for RANA exit instead of recompile process

Request to allow RANA exit to read a flat file as input and perform actions instead of modifying the EXIT each time with changes and recompiling it.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Config Manager Sort Function in CMCI connection

CICS CM Explorer CMCI connection doesn't allow sort on columns as the regular CMCI connection does, thus having to swap connections to sort columns based on criteria. I.E. Transaction Definitions, sort on REMOTE ID in regular CMCI connection, can ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Config Manager needs better resource overlay detection

Configuration Manager needs a better mechanism for detecting resource overlays as packages move through the topology. There are instances where if the same resource/resources exist in multiple pacakges that have been migrated into a configuration ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to extract packages from an export file into another file via a batch interface

We require the ability to transport resource definitions between geographically dispersed sysplexes and to apply transformation rules in the process. This need means we will have to migrate through an export file.Since the export file will be used...
over 10 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

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