New enhancements for DADS Plus for CICS

Products

• DADS Plus

Issue/Introduction

Will any enhancements be done in a future release of DADS Plus for CICS?

Is there any chance that DADS Plus for CICS can be changed to use GMT or UTC time? Reading the suggested batch interface procedure and with an enormous number of batch jobs, CICS regions and DADSBIF files, it is just not very feasible to manually go through the process.

Resolution

Unfortunately DADS Plus has been functionally stabilized since September 21, 2012 so no new enhancements or development cycles will be done for the product. Here is the link to the DADS Plus for CICS stabilization letter.

Broadcom is committed to providing support for DADS Plus for CICS r4.0 as new versions of z/OS and CICS/TS are released. There will be no further product versions, features or functionality introduced, and support for any new features of CICS TS will not be provided going forward.

At this time, Broadcom continues to certify DADS Plus for CICS r4.0, for new releases of CICS and z/OS, and will create fixes as required to support existing product features and functions. Maintenance for this product will continue in accordance with an active maintenance contract.