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Delay processing of CINB save to VSAM function.

We want to run the collector for a time period then pause without incurring the overhead of CINB writing to VSAM until later in the day when it is quieter.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS IA Support SQL Insert for DB2 LUW

CICS IA DB2 UDB support assumes that the data must be transferred to LUW and special scripts will be executed to import/load the data into the data base. There is no method on how to run batch jobs on z/OS to directly query DB2 UDB or load the dat...
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Datacom support

Our team uses CA-Datacom as a database for CICS applications. CICS IA does not track CICS applications that are making database queries/changes to Datacom.
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

More CICS IA Command Flow enhancements

The following requests have come from existing customers:1) Create a time/calander option independent of the standard CINT timer options that will allow command flow to be activited and terminated from a timer/calendar. Customers collect dependenc...
over 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS IA Command Flow Functionality

Have the ability to execute Command Flow by the number of transactions processed.
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Interdependency Analyzer

The ability to schedule a collection for a 1 time occurance.
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Allow customer data to be added to IA tables

Provide an IA generic module that can be linked to by application programs using a pre-defined comunication area(channel/container) This new generic IA module would populate the data passed to it out to the IA collection files. This would five a c...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

A request for the ability to exclude Natural resources like CIUXPROG or CIUXTRAN.

The customer would like to have a way to Enable/ Activate, in a specific CICS region, an exclude list against Natural resources. For example to add an exclude program like CICS IA does for TS queues, programs, transactions, MQ queues, etc. Another...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

A request for the ability to exclude Natural resources like CIUXPROG or CIUXTRAN.

The customer would like to have a way to Enable/ Activate, in a specific CICS region, an exclude list against Natural resources. For example to add an exclude program like CICS IA does for TS queues, programs, transactions, MQ queues, etc. Another...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration