Data and Database Management Software
Software analyzes transaction affinities.
Press Release Summary:
CICS® Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS® v1.3 is used with CICS Transaction Server on mainframe, which identifies resources used by CICS transactions and relationships between them. It also reports on DB2®, IMS(TM), and MQ resources which are used by CICS. Affinities data captured by Transaction Affinities utility can be loaded into DB2 tables for analysis. Sample SQL queries allow resource comparisons on data in DB2 tables.
Original Press Release:
IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V1.3 also Analyzes Transaction Affinities
Overview
CICS® Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA) for z/OS® V1.3 is a tool for use with CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) on the mainframe, which identifies the resources used by CICS transactions and the relationships between them. Resources identified include those associated with transactions, programs, Basic Mapping Support (BMS) maps, files, temporary storage (TS) queues, transient data (TD) queues, 3270 Bridge facility, Web Services, CorbaServer, and Enterprise JavaBeans(5) (EJBs).
It also reports on DB2®, IMS(TM), and MQ resources which are used by CICS. This information helps to improve your capability and efficiency in maintaining and enhancing your critical CICS applications. It helps speed CICS application migration and reuse, and increases CICS system availability.
Enhancements in this release include:
o Affinities data captured by the Transaction Affinities utility in CICS can be loaded into DB2 tables for analysis. The query interface has been updated for affinities.
o Improvements in the data collected for DB2 subsystem resources.
o Length of resource names increased from 50 to 200 bytes, to accommodate ENQ/DEQ names.
o Sample SQL queries that allow resource comparisons on the data in DB2 tables.
o New procedures, including sample data, for the installation process.
o Task Control Block data is collected, to assist in assessing threadsafe aspects of CICS-DB2 programs.
o Main, auxiliary, and Coupling Facility temporary storage queues are differentiated.
o Sample SQL queries to allow housekeeping functions on the DB2 data.
Key prerequisites
CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V1.3 may be used with CICS TS for OS/390® V1.3, or CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.2, or later.
Planned availability date
September 24, 2004
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: LE001
