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Ability to connect to CICS IA through SM Perspective in CICS Explorer

We notice that when we try to connect to IA from the CICS SM perspective in order to do a dependency check on a resource we find that we are presented with an internal error:No Connectable set for connection category 'com.ibm.cics.ia.connection.db...
about 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

New column in the Command Flow view

Provide a column in the Command Flow view that shows TCB CPU time for the execution of a command. This would show the difference between the CMD_TCB_CPUTIME_BEFORE and CMD_TCB_CPUTIME_AFTER fields.
over 7 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

CICS IA to build application bundles

Leverage information collected by CICS IA to build an application bundle
over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Full tab names should appear when hovering over a tab in the left middle window

Full tab names should appear when hovering over a tab in the window that contains the various views (Queries, Regions, IA Operations, Reports, etc). This window has so many tabs in it, novice users are unable to tell which views are available.
about 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 7 Delivered

Further command Flow enhancemens

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...
about 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

filtering and program call level indentation of Command Flow in CICS IA

In the command flow option, filtering is not possible on the output. One China CICS user wants to extract cobol dynamic call APIs from the command flow and see the graphical diagram of call tree with program level's indentation.
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered