To help you audit changes to resource definitions, you can use
the CICSĀ® Configuration Manager batch
command program to produce a CICS Resource
Definition Changes Report.
This report shows the changes to resource definitions that CICS Configuration Manager records in its
journal. When requesting the report, you can specify criteria for
the changes you are interested in, such as: when the change occurred,
who performed the change, and details of the changed resource definitions.
You can request two views of the report, package or resource:
- Package view
- Shows changes to resource definitions caused by migrating, importing,
or backing out a change package.
The package view contains a summary
report of the migrate, import, and backout events that meet your
criteria, followed by a detail report for each change package
shown in the summary report.
You can request the package view
in three levels of detail: activity, resource, or attribute.
The level of detail determines the contents of the detail reports:
- Activity level
- Shows all ready, unready, approve, disapprove, migrate,
import, and backout events, regardless of the criteria you specified,
where the change package used the same migration scheme as an event
for the change package in the summary report.
- Resource level
- Expands each migrate, import, and backout event from the summary
report to show changed resource definitions.
- Attribute level
- Expands each changed resource definition to show before and after
values of changed attributes.
- Resource view
- Shows changes to resource definitions by any method, including
editing, copying, and deleting using the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF dialog and
migrating, importing, or backing out a change package.
You can
request the resource view in two levels of detail, resource or attribute:
- Resource level
- Lists changed resource definitions that meet your criteria.
- Attribute level
- Expands each changed resource definition to show before and after
values of changed attributes.
Tip: By default, the
resource view includes changes caused by change packages. However,
you can specify criteria (CPID EQ <BLANK>) to exclude such changes,
so that the resource view shows all changes except those caused
by change packages. This enables you to use the package view for changes
caused by change packages, and the resource view for all other changes.
So, for example, you might want to produce both a weekly package view
and a weekly resource view; that is, both specifying the criteria
DATE GE TODAY-7, with the resource view also specifying the criteria
CPID EQ <BLANK>.
Auditing changes using the ISPF dialog:
In addition to producing batch reports of changes to resource definitions,
you can also use the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF
dialog to browse this information interactively:
- To browse changes caused by a specific change package, use option 3 Packages: select a change
package, and then choose History.
- To browse all changes to resource definitions, use option 4.3 CICS changes.