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CICSPA MQ Queues

Currently in another Vendors Product (part of a Monitoring Product) we have the capability to pull things like CICS Transactions where the Response Time of CICS is on an MQ Getwait for a Specific Queue Name. The person that Support CICSPA for our ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Reduce the size of headings in PA column headings

It would be a nice feature to have to allow the column headings in the "spreadsheet" view in CICS PA (and probably other Eclipse based tools also), the ability to "wrap" (similar to what Excel allows for column headings with the "wrap" option).
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement for CICSPA plugin Records View

If the customer uses CPSM groups, give the customer the option to select a subset of performance/statistics data by CPSM group in the Records View of the CICSPA plugin. This would include multiple APPLIDs in a group which could be defined by appli...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICSPA add arithmetic capability to Performance Alerts

Please add arithmetic capability to CICSPA performance alerts. For example (Response - RMIMQM). This feature should bel similiar to what is already available in CICSPA Statistic Alerts.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

ISPF Interface - provide ascending and descending column sorting

Provide the ability to sort columns in descending sequence. For all CICS CM ISPF panels that lists data in columns, CICS CM should have the capability to sort each column either in ascending or descending sequence. Currently only ascending sorts a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

I would like CICS explorer CM plugin search results to be enanched to be modifiable

I like to use CICS explorer CM plugin especially to search for resources. I think the search result view should be enanched with 2 features:1) the chance to modify the search performed and run it again instead of start a new search from scratch ev...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Change CICS IA to show the command EXEC CICS START with USERID

we have a customer who wishes to detect EXEC CICS START with USERID.They want to use CICS IA tool to see it.Today CICS IA shows only the command EXEC CICS START TRANSID but it is not included the subparameters, in this case, USERID parameter.
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

a request to get linked porgram name when static scan load module

customer wants to use IA to analysis the link(EXEC CICS LINK) between CICS programs. They want to use static scan to scan load modules to get this information. They know sometimes, the linked program name is decided at runtime. But some times, the...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 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

CICS VR should allow read-only jobs to coexist with Batch Backout

CICS VR Batch backout fails if another job is accessing the affected dataset is read-only mode.
almost 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration