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CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS

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Provide compatibility between DB2 v13 and CICS Interdependency Analyzer

We are upgrading to DB2 v13 and were informed that CICS IA is not compatible with this new version - we learned this via our IBM ticket TS013775865. They suggested that we submit an RFE if we would like this to be enhanced to support DB2 v13. We w...
over 2 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Add ability to remove specific CMDFLOW data from DB2 tables based on CMDFLOW_ID

When CMDFLOW data is loaded into the DB2 tables it can't easily be removed. There is no batch job or plugin capability to delete the records based on the CMDFLOW_ID. This means the table can't be cleaned up when work with the command flow is finis...
about 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Ability to group CICS regions together and start IA Collection process `by group`.

From a recent workshop for CICS IA with PNC · Customer has hundreds of CICS regions on their current environment and would like to group them into Dev, Prod and Application based regions. · Once grouped, customer would like to start CICS IA collec...
about 2 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

CICS IA should support FILE control remote access information

RFE 17778 addresses the lack of remote file information in file control GLUEs.Customer needs this information in order to rationalize her CICS architecture. This implies to get the relationship between programs, files and the CICS regions owning t...
about 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Change CICS/IA to show command EXEC CICS GETMAIN with LENGTH

We would like to detect EXEC CICS GETMAIN with LENGTH.We use CICS IA tool to see it.
about 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 Delivered

Ability to connect to CICS IA through SM Perspective in CICS Explorer

We notice that when we try to connect to IA from the CICS SM perspective in order to do a dependency check on a resource we find that we are presented with an internal error:No Connectable set for connection category 'com.ibm.cics.ia.connection.db...
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

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.
about 10 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...
almost 14 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS/IA Database Purge

CICS/IA currently does not have a purge process to weed out records that are not necessary. The current purge process is to simply delete database rows for records that have not been used in some interval. But this can purge the good with the bad....
almost 14 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 4 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...
almost 14 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered