March 2007: V1.2, third edition
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 CICSĀ® 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, CICS 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 an email 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.