Version 1.1.0 adds further enhancements to IBM® CICS Explorer™. Here is a description of the more significant new items available in this version.
New function |
New SM Administration perspective | The SM Administration perspective contains
a core set of views to help you get started with system and workload
management administration. The default SM Administration perspective
contains the following views:
See the topic The SM Administration perspective for more information. |
Support for column sorting in views | In the CICS
Explorer views you can now click the column name to sort the
data. Each time you click the column name the data is refreshed and
displayed in the next sort order in the rotation. The sort order cycles
in the following way:
You must be connected to a CICS® TS version 4.2 or later system, and use the CMCI interface. See the topic Sorting data in a view for more information. |
Support for system events in the CICS event binding editor | A system event is an event that has a significant effect on the health of the CICS system. System events can include resource state changes, thresholds being crossed, or unusual system states or actions. Use system events to help you understand changes in the state of your system resources or system health. For more information see System Events. |
Ability to create new z/OS® Unix directories | Using the z/OS perspective you can now create a new directory on your z/OS Unix file system. For more information see Creating a new z/OS Unix directory. |
Ability to change the access permissions for z/OS Unix files and directories | Using the z/OS Unix Files view you can now change the access permissions for z/OS Unix files and directories. For more information see Changing z/OS Unix file and directory permissions. |
Addition of a Save as function for z/OS Unix files | When editing a z/OS Unix file you can use the new Save as function to save the file in a different directory or as a different file name. For more information see Editing z/OS Unix files. |
Ability to choose an EPADAPTER configuration | In the CICS event binding editor you can now choose whether to use a predefined EPADAPTER resource, or the adapter defined in the Adapter section of the Adapter tab. When you use a separate EP adapter configuration you can easily share it between event bindings and you have only one resource to manage. When you specify an EP adapter configuration embedded in an event binding, then CICS creates an EPADAPTER resource for you with the same name as the event binding. For more information see Specifying EP adapter and dispatcher information. |
Addition of an online and offline EP search function | You can now use the event processing (EP) search function to search event bindings and EP adapter configurations for named resources. You can also search installed CICS resources. For more information see Using EP search function. |
New edit functions added to the event binding editor | In the event binding editor you can now use the functions: Undo, redo, copy and paste. |
Ability to create Atom configuration files | You can now create Atom configuration files using the CICS Explorer, and edit them with the new Atom Configuration file editor. The Atom Configuration Editor is only a basic starter editor and does not support all the possible attributes in an Atom configuration file. If you want to add attributes that are not displayed in the Atom Configuration Editor you must use an XML editor or a text editor. For more information see Creating an Atom configuration file. |
Ability to disable JVM Servers | You can now disable JVM Servers from the CICS Explorer: In the JVM Servers view, click a JVM Server and right-click to display the actions context menu. Hover over Disable and click one of the choices from the extended menu. |
Changed function |
Changes to the CICS Explorer menu bar | Changes have been made to the workbench menu
bar as follows:
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Improved support for transaction tracking | When tasks become unresponsive you can use transaction tracking to help with problem determination, and identification of related tasks. For more information see Transaction tracking. |
Renaming of the System z®.OS perspective | The System z.OS perspective is renamed to the z/OS perspective |
Changes to the CICS Event binding editor | In the Event binding editor adapter Advanced Options you can now choose an emission mode, Async or Sync, for all adapter types. |
Changed views: | The field names in the Task view have been changed to be more meaningful. The Active Workloads view has been renamed to the Workloads view. |
CICS Explorer SDK changes |
CICS Explorer SDK support has been added for creating Java OSGi applications | The CICS Explorer SDK provides samples that show you how to use the JCICS classes, how to combine Java programs with CICS programs written in other languages, and how to include the programs in a CICS bundle project. See the CICS Explorer SDK for further details. |