IV87536: MAINTENANCE ROLL UP FOR CICS EXPLORER

IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP0008
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP0009
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00010
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00011
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00012
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00013
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00014
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00015
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00016
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00017
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00018
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00019
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00020
IBM CICSEX-5.3.0-FP00021

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

Comments

APAR Information

• 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