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What's new in this version

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.
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