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CICS/IA suppression of duplicate REQID commands

CICS/IA allows for the suppression of commands by resource name for ENQUEUE and TSQueues, but we find a similar problem with REQID. We would like the REQID command also be suppressed if the REQID uses a constantly changing key.
over 8 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS IA needs to gather the SAG Natural programs flow of execution associated with a given TASKID

The customer has the following environment: z/OS 1.11 & 1.13, CICSTS32, NATURAL425, CICSIA31. The customer is a heavy SAG Natural user and they are asking us to have information about SAG Natural applications program execution sequence flow, j...
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Show URIMAP name in CICS Command Flow

The URIMAP name is not captured in CICS-IA Command flow capture. I have opened SR 51203,082,000 and in this SR IBM has requested that we put in an RFE for this enhancement/fix. While you're at it you might want to include URIMAP name in data captu...
over 5 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Utility to purge resources from the Dependency Database

Entries in the dependency database contain two timestamps (First_Run and Last_Run). When the customer makes changes to a resource, dependencies may be removed or added by the change. Therefore, a process is needed to allow the customer to purge re...
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS IA Collection options for Command Flow from ICBC

Collection options for Command Flow. By default collect the path Optional , other CICS commands , DB2 commands , MQ commands , IMS commands etc.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS IA Pattern recognition ability for Command Flow function (raised by ICBC)

Pattern recognition ability needs CICS IA to analyze the command flow data for transaction XYZ and group similar paths together.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add Container Names to CIUPFXTB and improve overhead of using table.

The program prefix list table now supports TS Queues, MQ, ENQ/DEQs and TS Queues for affinity. We have larger and larger uses of Channels and Containers to pass information that formerly was contained in TS Queues. The ability to add container nam...
over 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Improve CICS IA messages to clearly state when collection is starting, pausing or resuming due to timer controls

User had configured CICS IA V5.1 collector DEFAULTS for interdependency collection only ,however when CICS IA started, it also started collection for affinity even though it was not requested. The startup message CIU2258I showed HOUR OF DAY collec...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Command Flow Run limited to 1 userid in V5.1 (no wildcard allowed any more)

In CICS IA V3.2 it was possible to run command flows only depending on the transaction ID. With IA V5.1 now a single userid has to be specified under which the transactions run. Wildcards are not allowed any more http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docv...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Automatic Resource Prefixing if repetitive calls from same location

We would like CICS/IA to automatically compress (aggregate) resource names after more than x unique names coming from a single location in a program. This will work siimilarly to and in conjunction with the current CIUPFXTB technique, but instead
almost 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered