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Status Delivered
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 12, 2011

Command Flow - More flexability and control over the data captured

The following requests have come from existing customers:
1) Provide limit for the number of tasks collected for command flow during the collection period. This should include a couple of options...Collect the first xxx tasks for the transid...Collect YYY comand flows for a tranid in every ZZZ tasks executions.

2) 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 dependency IA data frequently, but they want the option to activate and deactive command flow on a different schedule than the dependency data. They also want to be able to schedule when command flow starts/stops so they don't have to do it manually at the specific time.

3) Provide a limit to the amount of data collected for each task. Aetna was using Command Flow to help diagnosis a problem. The target transaction had a loop and the resulting command flow captured hundreds of thousands of records filling up the journal.

10/15 additional requests from Aetna:
4) Change of statements in the IA Command Flow so that the plug in will enable you to pick a range, say 10,000 records from 30,000 to 40,000, and so forth.
3) Have a Find command in Command Flow, so you can do a search for a program or any resource type without having to manually scroll down to look for it.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Interdependency Analyzer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Interdependency Analyzer

  • Guest
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    Dec 13, 2012

    Requirements 1) and 3) in this RFE are satisfied by CICS  IA 5.1 which is generally available December 14th 2012.

    Requirements 2) , 4) and 5) will be considered as an uncommitted candidate for a future release.
    Opened new RFE for these 3 - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=27814

  • Guest
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    Oct 24, 2012

    Requirements 1) and 3) are satisfied in this RFE is satisfied by CICS  IA 5.1 which was announced on October 3rd 2012 and has a planned GA of December 14th 2012.

    Requirements 2) , 4) and 5) will be considered as an uncommitted candidate for a future release.
    Opened new RFE for these 3 - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=27814

  • Guest
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    May 3, 2012

    This requirement has been accepted as an uncommitted candidate for a future relase

  • Guest
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    Dec 13, 2011

    Items listed in this requirement are under consideration for a future release