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CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS

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Add ability to remove specific CMDFLOW data from DB2 tables based on CMDFLOW_ID

When CMDFLOW data is loaded into the DB2 tables it can't easily be removed. There is no batch job or plugin capability to delete the records based on the CMDFLOW_ID. This means the table can't be cleaned up when work with the command flow is finis...
about 2 months ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

Provide compatibility between DB2 v13 and CICS Interdependency Analyzer

We are upgrading to DB2 v13 and were informed that CICS IA is not compatible with this new version - we learned this via our IBM ticket TS013775865. They suggested that we submit an RFE if we would like this to be enhanced to support DB2 v13. We w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

Ability to group CICS regions together and start IA Collection process `by group`.

From a recent workshop for CICS IA with PNC · Customer has hundreds of CICS regions on their current environment and would like to group them into Dev, Prod and Application based regions. · Once grouped, customer would like to start CICS IA collec...
about 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Improve the loading performance in CICS IA

When loading a huge data array from VSAM affinity files into DB2 database affinity tables, CIUAFFLD job takes long time to be processed.
about 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPU excessive when collecting data using CICS IA 5.1 and CICS IA 5.2.

Customer attempts to collect data using CICS Interdependency Analyzer. The CPU increases significantly when when CICS IA is activated. Customer performed tests where CICS CPU performance increased from 27% to 62% under CICS IA 5.1. There is some i...
about 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Thread Safety for PL/I programs with CICS IA

For PL/I programs compiled with RENT option, CICS IA cannot correctly attribute the EXEC CICS commands to the actual program. In fact, CICS IA attributes all EXEC CICS commands to program CEEEV003. This limitation should be relieved.
over 7 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CIUUPDB Inefficient duplicate processing

The Collector files contain a lot of info gathered over a number of years and it appears that the Batch job CIUUPDB process s every record even though there is just a few new updates in the collector files that need processed. We would like a way ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide an option to reduce report output from CIUUPDB (focus on STEP091)

The amount of output produced by the jobs is massive in particular STEP091. Is there a way can reduce this for unnecessary output or could that be linked to the problem described in RFE #129515?
almost 6 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable CICS IA Collection regions to startup even without connection to VSAM Control Files

CICS IA collection process be modified to allow it to be started with out a connection to the VSAM files, and to retry for a specified amount of time or attempts
over 7 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS IA - dump supression option

Supply a method or means to suppress dumps on a specified CICS region
over 7 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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