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.