CICS® IA V3.2 delivers a
wide range of important new capabilities:
- Enhanced CICS IA Command
Flow Feature
- CICS IA V3.2 introduces
a new User Command Flow Feature. This allows individual developers
to collect Command Flow data, use batch jobs to load their data and
the CICS IA Explorer plug-in
to view their data. The Command Flow feature can collect data in a
chronological order by transaction(s) or terminal. A new transaction,
CINC, is used to operate and administer Command Flow runs. You can
also operate and administer it from the CICS IA
Explorer plug-in.
- Operating the Collector through the CICS IA
plug-in for the CICS Explorer®
- In CICS IA V3.2, you can
control the operation of the CICS IA
Dependency and Affinity Collector using the CICS IA plug-in for the CICS Explorer. You can START/STOP/PAUSE/CONTINUE
and REFRESH the controller.
- Enhanced dynamic call support
- CICS IA V3.2 now identifies
the program invoking CICS/MQ/IMS/DB2 commands, even if this is a dynamically
called program.
- Enhanced Affinity collection support
- In CICS IA V3.2, you can
store collected affinity data in both DB2® zOS
and DB2 UDB databases. It provides
the ability to extract the Affinity data into CSV files and a sample
stored procedure to load the data into DB2 for
zOS or a UDB database table.
- Enhanced MQ API support
- CICS IA V3.2 provides the
ability to collect MQ V7.1 API commands supported by CICS TS 4.1 and above.
- Enhanced installation and customization
- In CICS IA V3.2, you can
take advantage of the enhanced ISPF configuration support that simplifies CICS IA installation and customization
process.
This includes "shared" configuration support. Previously,
all configurable variables were stored in a dataset owned by the userid.
Now, you can save them in a shared dataset.
- CICS TRUE mapping support
- In CICS IA V3.2, you can
use a DB2 table to map the TRUE
name to a description. The description will be shown in the detailed
information for that TRUE in the Properties view in the CICS IA Explorer plug-in.
- Enhanced Application Resource Information
- In CICS IA V3.2 Explorer
plug-in, you can now discover resources used by Application.
- Internal trace
- CICS IA V3.2 now uses the CICS TS user trace feature. This
allows up to three levels of tracing and helps with CICS IA problem determination.
- Data Life Cycle Management
- CICS IA V3.2 introduces
the ability to identify a CICS Dependency
collection at DB2 load time.
This enables the user to load, manage, and compare resource usage
by collection id.