The most significant changes for this release are:
- The CINT transaction, used to control the collection of dependency
and affinity data, has been enhanced as follows:
- You can now set a timer, to control the dates and times at which
dependency or affinity data is collected on a region. See Specifying region-specific options: timers.
- You can specify, by means of a list of name prefixes, a set of
programs for which data is not to be collected. See Creating a program exclude list.
- You can specify, by means of a list of name prefixes, a set of CICS transactions for which data
is not to be collected: see Creating a transaction exclude list.
- A new database table, CIU_REGION_INFO, is introduced, to store
information about the CICS regions
on which the Collector runs.
CIU_REGION_INFO is described in The structure of the CICS regions objects.
- A new installation customization program helps you to customize
the CICS IA sample
jobs, clists, and SQL definitions. It creates customized installation
jobs in which the names of system entities, such as the high-level
qualifier (hlq) of the CICS IA data
sets, are set to specified values to suit your local environment.
The installation customization program is described in Running the installation customization program.
- Worksheet for the installation customization program is a new appendix that
contains a worksheet for use with the installation customization program.
- A new program, the CICS IA client,
which is designed to run in an Eclipse development environment, provides
a graphical front end to CICS IA; See The CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer.
- A new Scanner, the CSECT Scanner, is introduced. It scans load
modules for information that can be used to identify the version of
each CSECT. The output is stored in DB2 tables
and can be used to identify different versions of programs. See The CSECT Scanner , Running the CSECT Scanner,
and The structure of the CSECT Scanner objects.
- New and changed messages are listed in Messages and codes.
- Solving problems is a new chapter.
Changes for Version 2 Release 1, PTF PK35107
The
most significant changes made for this PTF are: