Describes new functions introduced by the PTF for APAR PK32577:
- List
or package resource definitions in a change package without specifying a migration
scheme
- Prior to this PTF, to view a list of the resource definitions in a change
package, or package (add or remove) resource definitions in a change package,
you had to specify a migration scheme for the change package. Now you can
perform these actions with or without specifying a migration scheme.
This
is particularly useful when:
- You have used a change package in an export file to import resource definitions
to a target CICS configuration, and now you want to view a list of the imported
resource definitions. Prior to this PTF, you had to create a migration scheme
whose name matched the target CICS configuration, and then specify that migration
scheme when listing the contents of the imported change package.
- You want to add resource definitions to a change package without considering
which migration scheme will be used with that change package. (For example,
the users who package resource definitions might have no need to know which
migration schemes will be used to migrate those resource definitions.)
- You want to see all resource definitions associated with the change package,
regardless of migration scheme.
- Add
CSD list objects to change packages
- You can now add lists (sets of groups, as defined in CSD files) to change
packages. You can then migrate the lists from one
CICS configuration to another. This enables you to manage changes
to lists across CICS systems. Some restrictions apply to packaging
lists that do not apply to other resource types: you cannot migrate
a list to a CICS configuration that refers to a context. Also, note
that packaging a list only adds the list object (a set of group names)
to the change package, not the groups in the list.
- Support
for a mixture of RLS and non-RLS CSD files
- Prior to this PTF, CICSĀ® Configuration Manager supported
situations where either all CSD files used record-level sharing (RLS), or
none used RLS, but not a mixture of both. Now, for each CICS configuration
that refers to a CSD file, you can specify whether or not the CSD file uses
RLS; CICS Configuration Manager accesses
the CSD file accordingly.
- Security checking
for resource definitions
- In addition to the security checking for API commands, security has been
extended to protect individual resource definitions based on key details including
group, type, and name. You can instruct CICS Configuration Manager to
perform these checks in addition to, or instead of, the existing security
checks for API commands.
- Additional
sample user exits
- Additional sample user exits, with complete source code, demonstrate how
to use CICS Configuration Manager server
exit points to:
- Transfer export files via FTP (file transfer protocol)
- Send e-mail to change package approvers
- Enforce site standards for resource definition attributes
- Show
lists that contain a specific group
- In the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF
dialog interface, to show the lists/ResDescs to which a group/ResGroup belongs,
you can enter the new line action REL ("related")
next to a group/ResGroup.
- Show
groups that do not belong to a specific list, or to any CSD lists
- In the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF
dialog interface, to show the groups/ResGroups that do not belong to a list/ResDesc,
you can enter the new line action UNR ("unrelated")
next to a list/ResDesc.
Possible uses for this line action include identifying
groups that do not belong to any of the lists specified by the system initialization
(SIT) parameter GRPLIST, and so could be redundant.
- When
comparing two groups, select several resource definitions
- In the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF
dialog interface, when comparing two groups side-by-side, you can now enter
the line action S (or X)
next to several resource definitions, from either group, to display them together
in a list panel. To select all resource definitions in the left-hand group,
you can enter the new primary command SL * (or S1 *). To select all resource definitions in the
right-hand group, enter SR * (or S2
*). To select all resource definitions in both groups, enter S
*
- Update
all of your existing CICS configuration definitions in a single batch job
- In addition to defining new CICS configurations, the DATATAKEUP batch
command now allows you to update existing CICS configurations. This offers
a timesaving alternative to the interactive ISPF dialog panels for updating
CICS configurations.
- Limit the
number of resource definitions displayed
- To avoid long response times, you can use CICS Configuration Manager ISPF
dialog option 0 Settings to set
an upper limit on the number of resource definitions displayed by list panels.