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CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS

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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...
over 11 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.
over 9 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...
over 8 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.
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

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....
about 12 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...
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

New column in the Command Flow view

Provide a column in the Command Flow view that shows TCB CPU time for the execution of a command. This would show the difference between the CMD_TCB_CPUTIME_BEFORE and CMD_TCB_CPUTIME_AFTER fields.
about 7 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 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

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