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June 2013: APAR updates to V5.1

This edition describes updates introduced by the PTF for APAR PM80814:

Add notes to a change package
You can now write and save notes (lines of text) with a change package. For example, special instructions to users working with the change package.
New server exit points for install, discard, and newcopy actions
The CICS® Configuration Manager server introduces new user exit points just before performing an install, a discard, or a newcopy action for a resource. These are known as operations qualification exit points. You can attach your own CICS programs to these exit points. The CICS Configuration Manager server passes to your programs the details of the action that it is about to perform. Your programs can use these details to decide whether to allow or disallow the action. The details can include an optional "qualification exit data" parameter (a freeform text string) that the user specifies when requesting the action. Your programs can use this parameter to allow or disallow the action based on your own custom site-specific data.
New, separate default values for security key prefixes
To restrict what users can do with CICS Configuration Manager, you can activate two types of security check: for CICS Configuration Manager API commands (is the user authorized to perform this command?) and for CICS resource definitions (is the user authorized to manipulate this definition?). For each security check, CICS Configuration Manager creates a security key. Each key begins with a prefix that identifies the type of security check. Previously, the prefix for both types of security check had the same default value, CCM. To avoid confusion between group profiles for the two types of security check, the prefixes for each type of security check now have different default values: CCVAPI for API command security checks, and CCVRES for resource definition security checks.
New sample members for defining security checks
For examples of how to define security checks in a RACF® environment, see the new members named CCVXSAFx in the sample library SCCVSAMP.
Information about keylists used by the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF dialog
The CICS Configuration Manager ISPF dialog uses keylists to assign function keys to commands. Different panels in the dialog use different keylists, according to the commands available on each panel. If you prefer your function key assignments to remain the same across all ISPF panels, you can disable keylists. You can use the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF dialog with keylists disabled, but you lose the convenience of function key assignments that are customized for each panel.
CICS SIT parameters CSDSTRNO and MXT
The installation instructions contain new recommendations for setting the value of the CICS system initialization (SIT) parameters CSDSTRNO and MXT.
Target CICS configuration name now passed to resource attribute update (RANA) exit programs
The parameters that the CICS Configuration Manager server passes to RANA exit programs now include the name of the target CICS configuration where the resource definition is to be created, updated, or deleted. This change does not affect the layout of the parameter list, so you do not need to recompile existing exit programs; the target CICS configuration name occupies a previously reserved field of the same length.
Additional installation instructions on replacing the CICS-supplied definitions for RDO transactions
If you have CICS Configuration Manager, it is recommended that you no longer use the resource definition online (RDO) transactions CEDA, CEDB, and CEDC that are provided by CICS. CICS Configuration Manager provides replacement definitions for these transactions.
Using the SOAP API from a REXX procedure in a batch job
The CICS Configuration Manager batch command program offers commands for processing existing change packages. These batch commands represent only a subset of the commands available via the CICS Configuration Manager SOAP application programming interface (API). If you want to use other CICS Configuration Manager API commands in a batch job, see the REXX procedure in member CCVXXMLC of the sample library SCCVSAMP.

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