
December 2015: V5.3
This edition describes updates for CICS® Configuration Manager V5.3.
- Generating PassTickets with RACF or another ESM
- You can now use access profiles in RACF or other external security manager to grant authority to generate PassTickets. CICS Configuration Manager no longer requires an APF library for PassTicket generation.
- Discard action for CICSPlex® SM and change packages
- You can now discard resources from context-based CICS configurations. Previously, you could use the discard action only with CSD-based CICS configurations. You can also discard the resources in a change package from active CICS regions.
- CICS definitions compare report
- You can now run a batch report to show the differences between CICS resource definitions in two CSDs.
- Create, Update, and Delete exit points for change packages
- Pre- and post-processing exit points are now available when you create or delete a change package, or update its attributes. For example, you can use the Create pre-processing exit point to add standard text to the Description, External reference, or Notes attributes of a change package.
- Transformation groups
- You can now define groups of transformation rule sets, known as transformation groups. A migration path can refer either to a transformation rule set, as before, or to a transformation group.
- Customizing security checking
- The edition introduces documentation for the existing security call exit program CCVXSECI and related sample members.
- Tracking who created a change package
- Creating a change package now stores the user ID of the creator
in the change package record.
To display this user ID in the ISPF dialog, display the list of change packages, and then scroll right to display the CreateID column.
The package view of the CICS Resource Definition Changes Report displays this user ID in a CreateID column.
In the SOAP API, the object data for a change package includes this user ID and the corresponding creation time.
Change package records created before the introduction of this feature do not contain this information.
- Batch processing of SOAP API response with XSLT
- Member CCVXXMLC of the sample library SCCVSAMP demonstrates using an XSLT style sheet to transform SOAP API response XML into other formats, such as comma-separated values (CSV).
- Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.3
- The CICS Configuration Manager server runs under and supports CICS Transaction Server V5.3 environments.
