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CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS

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Provide sample CSV files as an IVP to populate CICS IA UDB

Provide CSV files for all CICS IA supported DB2 tables for loading into a UDB for purposes of installation verification. Also provide an IVP script to run a suite of IVP queries on all tables to verify the UDB deployment.
about 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Choose to show only direct resources used by a program/transaction or all resources

In the plug-in today you can ask to view "Uses resources" against a transaction. This currently returns and show both the direct resources used and the indirect resources used by that transaction. By indirect we mean if the transaction starts or r...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Command Flow view to show resource across regions

Today in the plug-in you can use the command flow visualization to look at the task flow across regions.We would like this capability in the Command Flow view
almost 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

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

CICS Plugin Bit Pattern Queries

There are a variety of CICS applications that are using interfaces that are not supported by CICS IA. The ability to use the query tool to build / report on the occurrence of bit patterns within load modules would greatly enhance the functionality...
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

CICS IA Customization clist needs to provide a DB2 configuration option to comment out REORG TABLESPACE in generated SQL

After applying CICS IA maintenance, it is often required to re-run the CICS IA Customization clist to re-generate members. For the DB2 configuration, SQL members, for example CIULOADC (and many others) end with a 'REORG TABLESPACE'. At this site, ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the CICS IA Explorer Plug-in to provide the capability to delete collected affinity data

The CICS IA Explorer (v5.1) Plug-in allows users to delete dependency data by collection id. There is no equivalent capability in the Explorer to delete collected affinity data..
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 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

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