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APAR status
Closed as program error.
Error description
THIS APAR INCLUDES FIXES TO VARIOUS DEFECTS IDENTIFIED IN CICS EXPLORER V5.3.0.
Local fix
Problem summary
This APAR addresses a number of small defects within CICS Explorer: New and updated items: - The System Links view (SYSLINK) is added to the SM Administration perspective. - The toolbar icons for resources views are updated. "Equalise column widths" is moved from the toolbar into the view menu (the little triangle in the view toolbar), icons for "Open View Configurations", "Reset To View Configuration" and "Save Settings To View Configuration" are added to the toolbar. - The discard dialog on resources that also support disable is upgraded to add a preference to issue a disable request before discarding. - Using the perform operation dialog to install definitions in a situation where there's only one possible install target (e.g. with a scope selected), the only possible install target will now be selected by default. - CICS Explorer is updated internally in some areas to retrieve records via CMCI in one connection attempt rather than separate get/fetch/discard connections. This improves performance in the CICSplex Explorer and the Workload Specification Editor particularly. - In the CICSplex Repositories view, CSD list entries are now sorted in sequence, rather than alphabetic, order. - When exporting a CICS Bundle to zFS, Explorer now remembers for that bundle whether you prefer to export to a platform home or a specific location. - In the CICS View Configuration preferences, unsaved changes are now shown with an asterisk. - To make it easier to replace your current views with a full set of imported views, you can now select all views in the View Configuration preferences and delete them in one go. - New wizards are created to allow view configurations to be imported and exported. They can be found most easily from the View Configuration preferences dialog. - A new "Save Settings To View Configuration" button is added to the view toolbar which applies any changes in your active view to the underlying view configuration. - The NONRLSRECOV SIT Parameter was not visible within CICS Explorer when using the Show SIT Parameters function (IV87858). Bugs fixed: - Quick filters could not be applied to some 'N/A' attribute values. - Changing the CICSplex in the perform operation dialog (e.g. when installing a definition) could result in a NullPointerException. - NullPointerException could be shown in the Error Log from the 'Create table view' wizard when nothing was selected. - CPSM APAR PI66792 addresses an issue which allowed CICSPlex SM to return multiple results when CICS Explorer made a requests that should return one unique record. This is now guarded in Explorer. - When the context or scope was changed, all resources views that had been used were refreshed, even if they were not visible. Now, only visible views are refreshed. If a view becomes visible with a stale context/scope, it will be refreshed. - When importing a transaction into a CICS Bundle, you had to import a "Local Transaction" which was a regression, should have been just "Transaction". - In the Regions view, PRGMUCNT and IDNTYCLASS were incorrectly named. - From CICS Explorer 5.3.0.6, the performance when adding and removing columns in a Resources view was very slow. - For CMAS to CMAS Links, when using New and New from... the CMAS Context field did not have a sensible default. - In some of the CICS Example wizards, the project type icons were not available and showed as red squares. - Using the less than (<) filter operator in a view configuration with the SM Data connection resulted in an exception in the error log. - The Quick Filter colours were not correct on Ubuntu Linux. - The order of some context menu items in resources views was incorrect.
Problem conclusion
The listed issues have been addressed. This fix will be made available in Version 5.3.0.8 of the CICS Explorer. For installation instructions please see: Ordering maintenance for IBM CICS Explorer and CICS Explorer plug-ins http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21380083
Temporary fix
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APAR Information
APAR number
IV87536
Reported component name
CICS EXPLORER V
Reported component ID
5655Y0401
Reported release
530
Status
CLOSED PER
PE
NoPE
HIPER
NoHIPER
Special Attention
NoSpecatt / Xsystem
Submitted date
2016-08-02
Closed date
2016-09-29
Last modified date
2016-09-29
APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:
APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:
Modules/Macros
EXPLORER
Fix information
Fixed component name
CICS EXPLORER V
Fixed component ID
5655Y0401
Applicable component levels
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Document Information
Modified date:
29 September 2016