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New facility for managing (removing) data loaded to CICS PA DB2 tables

CICS PA has facilities to load data to DB2 tables from HDBs, but there are no facilities to remove or manipulate the loaded data. Specifically for the Explorer HDB/DB2 tables the product needs to have a mechanism to remove data from the DB2 data a...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer plugin needs the Top 20 type view

In order to quickly look at the previous days worst performing transactions (response times, # tcb switches etc), the Explorer plugin needs to have that capability.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 8 Delivered

Enhance Transaction inclusion/exclusion selection in the PA plug-in

The customer wants to load all transactions to the CICS PA database, and then selectively display information. Currently via the explorer you can select a specific transactions to be displayed by doing an ALT CLICK on the transaction id window. Th...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Batch reporting for CTG (SMF 111) statistics records

CTG - CICS PA fields described for SMF111 as exists for SMF110With CICSPA the customer can easily work with SMF110 records. They can generate a batch job and then can modify it to have other CICSPA fields displayed in their reports. To work with S...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Performance Summary improvement for CICS Explorer PA Plugin

This request applies to the Explorer plugin for PA. When looking at a Performance Summary tab view, it would be advantageous (to all users I believe) to be able to use a key (like up or down arrow) to select a given region/day etc and have a view ...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Package -- Special Instructions Field

On the package panel, the product currently has an External Reference field. The customer would like an additional option on this screen of "Special Instructions" that accepts a Y/N option. When the product scrolls down an additional freeform fiel...
over 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

All for Remove option when deleting a group

When deleting a group, CM should give the user the option of removing the group from the group list.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS Configuration Manager program CCVBDDDI should echo all input control cards

CICS CM job hlq.SCCVSAMP(CCVXSYSO), step PRIME1, takes a series of control cards that are used to determine system options. The PRIME1 step of this job executes PGM=CCVBDDDI. If the job is successful, the only thing that is seen in the output is t...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Not all ISPF panel scroll when in split screen

All CICS CM panels need to be able to scroll if there is more data than can be displayed on the current screen. For example, when in split screen mode some data may not be displayed on the bottom of the panel, and the user needs to scroll down to ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS Configuration Manager should manage zFS artifacts

CICS CM should be able to manage both the artifacts associated with the web services (i.e.: WSDL and WSBIND files) and those related with business and system events (Event Binding and Event Adapter).
almost 13 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered