July 2009: V2.1
Describes new features introduced in CICS® Configuration Manager V2.1:
- Support for CICS Transaction Server V4.1
- CICS Configuration
Manager V2.1
includes support for new features introduced in CICS Transaction Server V4.1, including:
- Definition signature for resource definitions (attributes that contain details about when, how, and by whom a resource definition was defined or changed)
- New types of resource definition:
- Application bundle (BUNDLE)
- Atom service (ATOMSERVICE)
- WebSphere® MQ Connection (MQCONN)
- Java™ Virtual Machine server (JVMSERVER)
For more information on these new features, see the CICS Transaction Server documentation.
- Working with full-function BAS objects
- You can now use CICS Configuration
Manager to
create and maintain full-function BAS objects:
- Resource assignment (RASGNDEF)
- Resource assignments in resource description (RASINDSC)
- System link (SYSLINK)
- Deployment analysis reports
- Deployment analysis reports enable you to list or compare resource definitions in active CICS regions, CSD files, and CICSPlex® SM data repositories, in various combinations. The reports help you to answer questions about your CICS environment, and avoid potentially costly surprises caused by unexpected differences. For example, the "cold start compare" deployment analysis report compares a set of "runtime" resource definitions (collected from an active CICS region) with a set of "candidate" resource definitions (stored in a CSD file, CICSPlex SM data repository, or combination of the two). This report helps you to answer the question: what will be the effect of cold-starting a CICS region?
- Migration of commands
- Previously, you could use change packages to migrate only resource
definitions between CICS configurations.
You can now also use change packages to perform the following commands
after the migration of resource definitions:
- Add
- Adds a resource definition to a resource group (ResGroup) in a context-based target CICS configuration.
- Remove
- Removes a resource definition from a ResGroup in a context-based target CICS configuration.
- Delete
- Deletes a resource definition from either a CSD-based or a context-based target CICS configuration.
- CICS Explorer®
- (Also available to users of CICS Configuration Manager V1.2.) CICS Explorer with the CICS Configuration Manager plug-in offers an Eclipse-based graphical user interface to many of the functions available in the CICS Configuration Manager TSO/ISPF user interface.
- Change package external reference expanded to 32 characters
- For improved compatibility with third-party change management systems, the external reference for a change package is now 32 characters.
- ISPF dialog interface: XML trace to data set
- As an alternative to displaying an on-screen XML trace of the SOAP API requests and responses that the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF dialog client exchanges with the CICS Configuration Manager server, the action bar choice now allows you to save the XML trace to a data set.
- Server setup: PLTPI entry no longer required
- Previous releases of CICS Configuration
Manager required
you to add the server initialization program CCVIINIT to the post-initialization
program list table (PLTPI), otherwise the server would not initialize
correctly. You are no longer required to add CCVIINIT to the PLTPI.
You can now start the CICS Configuration
Manager server
by either:
- Adding CCVIINIT to the PLTPI, as before
or
- Calling CCVIINIT, or invoking the transaction CCVI, at any time after the server CICS region has started
Tip: After installing CICS Configuration Manager, if you use the sample installation JCL member CCVXSYSO again later to update CICS Configuration Manager system options (such as port numbers) , you can invoke transaction CCVI to re-initialize the CICS Configuration Manager server so that it uses the updated system options. - Adding CCVIINIT to the PLTPI, as before
- Server setup: CSDLSRNO SIT parameter
- Previous releases of CICS Configuration Manager required you to specify the CICS system initialization (SIT) parameter CSDLSRNO=NONE. If the server is running under CICS TS V3.2 or earlier, you can now specify any value allowed by CSDLSRNO. From CICS TS V4.1, you can specify any value allowed by CSDLSRNO, with the following exception: if you specify the SIT parameter TRANISO=YES, then you cannot specify CSDLSRNO=NONE.
- Processing change packages in batch: new EXTREF parameter
- The following batch commands now allow you to refer to a change package by either its ID or its external reference: READY, UNREADY, APPROVE, DISAPPROVE, MIGRATE, BACKOUT, INSTALL, and NEWCOPY.
- SOAP API: new process parameter on List command to return all attributes
- As an alternative to specifying a List command request containing restriction criteria for each attribute of a resource definition, you can now specify the process parameter <AllAttributes>YES</AllAttributes> to return all attributes.
- SOAP API: enhancements to support packaged commands
- The Add command, Remove command, and ReadyLst object have been enhanced to support change packages that contain commands.