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CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS

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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

CICS IA should provide a way to determine if a CICS command is threadsafe or not threadsafe

CICS IA should have either an indicator or the ability to right click a collected command to determine if the specific command is threadsafe or not threadsafe.
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 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

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