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CICS Tools for z Systems Middleware

What’s NEWCICS Tools V5.3

Joe Gailey Senior IT Specialist

Client Technical Professional for CICS z/OS Toolsjgailey@us.ibm.com

CICS Tools for z Systems Middleware

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Agenda:

CICS Interdependency Analyzer

Understand inter-relationships to safely make fast and frequent changes

to your applications

CICS Performance Analyzer

Optimize to achieve more with less and handle growing workloads

CICS Configuration Manager

Simply and safely manage complex resource definition changes with

control & auditability

CICS Deployment Assistant

Understand and elastically scale your configuration to handle workload

spikes

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.3

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Application insight

• Support for CICS® Transaction Server V5.3

• Identify Application “entry points” and

“dependencies” for cloud enablement of existing

applications

• Easier administration of collector function by

implementing scenario based collections

• Easier configuration and customisation of the

CICS IA product

• Usability improvements in the CICS Explorer

plug-in perspective

What’s new in CICS IA V5.3?

• Visualize application flow and structure

• Identify mobile and web service candidates

• Identify threadsafe / non-threadsafe programs

• Isolate and remove affinities

• Speed CICSPlex® SM workload management

• Advanced CICS command flow analysis

CICS IA enables you to…

New in CICS IA V5.3

• Application On boarding

• New CICS IA perspective

• Default Configuration

• Scenario based collection from the plug-in

• Database Purge

New in CICS IA V5.3

• And more ...

• The collection of dynamic calls for COBOL Version 5.• The identification of the remote SYSID and remote name for

file commands.• The Resource Prefix list is replaced by the Resource

Compression list, which allows the user to apply a compression rule and also preserve a part of the resource name.

• The command flow feature is expanded to collect Software AG’s Natural program calls.

CICS IA V5.3 RFEs delivered

CICS IA V5.3 new perspective

CICS IA V5.3 Default Configuration

CICS IA V5.3 Scenario based collections

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CICS IA Plugin• New reorganised perspective - ease of use...

• Application Deployment - identifying Application Entry points and Dependencies.

• Scenario Based collections

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New IA redbook based on V53

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246458.html?Open

CICS Performance Analyzer V5.3

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Performance insight: CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.3

• IBM CICS Transaction Server V5.3 support

• Forms-based summary reporting for CICS TS and

CICS TG statistics

• New forms for mobile workload reporting and for

use with mobile workload pricing tool

• DB2 table upgrade function

• New categorization and search for forms

• New pre-defined report sets based on scenarios

What’s new in CICS PA V5.3?

• Comprehensive Performance Reporting and

Analysis for CICS including DB2, WebSphere MQ,

and MVS System Logger

• Understand trends and develop capacity plans

• View statistics and create statistical alerts

CICS PA enables you to…

Ensuring optimum health and performance of CICS is critical as ever more demands are placed on existing systems by growing online and mobile workloads. Stay in shape by tuning your system for peak performance, understanding the impact of changes to applications and hardware, identifying performance bottlenecks and latency, as well as identifying trends and developing capacity plans.

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What’s New in CICS PA V5.3

• Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.3• New CICS Performance and Statistics data

• Transaction Tracking data tag – Mobile workload management and pricing

• Batch Reporting for CICS TS and TG Statistics records (RFE 53732 & 46252)

• Fully customizable Summary reports supporting cross-domain summarization providing system wide analysis

• Week and Month summarization intervals provides longer term statistical analysis particularly for trend analysis and capacity planning

• List form creation and use made easier

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What’s New in CICS PA V5.3 …

• Scenario based sample Report Sets• Sample Report Sets, including all related objects, available out-of-the-

box

• Provides both experienced and novice users a quick start to problem analysis

• Extensive sample form search• Search facility to assist in the identification of sample form(s) specific

to the task the user is performing

• The extensive search function filters the 200+ sample forms down to those that match the user’s selection criteria

• Improved process for upgrading CICS PA DB2 tables (RFE 43221)

• Users can easily upgrade DB2 table definition and migrate existing DB2 table data to the new definition in a single job

• Easies the CICS upgrade migration process

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What’s New in CICS PA V5.3 …

• CICS PA Plug-in• New CICS TS V5.3 plug-in Templates have been added to include the

new CMF fields:• DSAPTHWT Dispatcher Allocate Pthread wait time

• NCGET Named Counter Server Get requests

• TSGETSHR Shared Temporary Storage GET requests

• TSPUTSHR Shared Temporary Storage PUT requests

• WBJSNRQL JSON message request length

• WBJSNRPL JSON message response length

• List Extended report sort field limit removed• The List Extended report limit of 3 sort fields has been removed

allowing more granular sorting of CMF records

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Batch Summary Reporting for CICS TS and TG Statistics records

• Customizable Batch Summary Reporting for CICS Statistics• CICS TS, CICS TS Server, and CICS TG

Statistics

• New Summary report selection under Statistics Reports in a Report Set

• Form based system monitoring and problem analysis

• Supports DevOps by providing before-after system performance comparison of key system resources

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Batch Summary Reporting for CICS TS and TG Statistics Forms

• Full customizable Summary reports using Forms– Can combine fields from multiple stat

ids that share a common key field value in a single report

– Records sorted in accordance with user specification

– Individual field functions

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CICS performance issues

V5R3M0 CICS Performance Analyzer

Statistics Summary

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Tot Tot Max Max Tot Tot Tot

APPLID Collection Transaction Times Peak Peak Total Total Total

Time at Active Queued Active Delayed Queuing Time

MAXTASK User User User User for MAXTASK

Transaction Transaction Transaction Transaction

IYCUZC25 2015/07/29-12:00:00 265 0 44 0 229 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCUZC26 2015/07/29-12:00:00 511 0 6 0 475 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCUZC31 2015/07/29-12:00:00 186190 0 166 0 183806 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCUZC32 2015/07/29-12:00:00 204670 0 165 0 202088 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCUZC33 2015/07/29-12:00:00 192264 0 192 0 189205 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCUZC34 2015/07/29-12:00:00 420673 0 407 0 417557 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCUZC41 2015/07/29-12:00:00 566589 0 472 0 566159 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCUZC42 2015/07/29-12:00:00 432849 0 473 0 432474 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCYZC2G 2015/07/27-15:00:00 22 0 4 0 1 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCYZC2L 2015/07/27-15:00:00 22 0 5 0 1 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCYZC2M 2015/07/27-15:00:00 22 0 4 0 1 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCYZC2N 2015/07/27-15:00:00 23 0 4 0 1 0 00.00.00.000000

IYCYZC20 2015/07/27-15:00:00 132038 13 500 50 131737 140 00.02.56.232918

Easily customizable data

field selection using the new

statistics Summary forms

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Batch Reporting for CICS TS Statistics records …

• Customizable Batch Reporting for CICS Statistics• New Statistics Summary Forms option in the Report Forms menu

• Existing Statistics List Forms moved from Resource Definitions menu to Report Forms menu to standardize with Performance Forms

• Forms allow full customization of reports through field selection and field ordering in the reports

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Customizable Batch Reporting for CICS TS and TG Statistics data …

• Forms based customization allows cross-domain reporting for holistic system performance analysis

• Report interval using time, day-of-week (weekly) or month provides long term statistical analysis

• Powerful selection criteria using Statistics Alert definitions to filter the report records to

only those of interest

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Mobile Workload report

• Sample Form used for report or extract as input to pricing utility

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Out-of-the-box Sample Report Sets

• A complete set of sample Report Sets (including all related objects provide both experienced novice users with a quick start of common problems analysis

• The following common problem scenarios are included:• MAXTASK reached

• Short on Storage

• Temporary Storage issues

• File access issues

• Unexpected increase in CPU consumption

• Unexpected increase in response times

• Threadsafe analysis

• Before and after comparison of application development and deployment

• CICS system pre and post consolidation analysis

• CICS performance data sharing using CICS PA plug-in

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Extensive sample form search

• Search facility to assist in the identification of sample form(s) specific to the task from the 200+ provided sample

– Freeform text search of:

• Form description

• Field names

• CICS field id

• Field description

– Selection by form type

– Selection by form

category

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Improved process for upgrading CICS PA DB2 tables (RFE 43221)

• Users can now seamlessly upgrade CICS PA DB2 table definitions and migrate existing DB2 table data to the new definition in a single job

• automatically adds new table columns based on the CICS release being upgraded to or new columns in user defined Templates

• discard obsoleted tables columns

• copy all current column data to new table definition

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New CICS PA Plug-in CICS TS V5.3 Templates

• The following new Templates have been added to include new CICS TS V5.3 CMF fields:

• APPLNM53 - SUMMARY - Explorer HDB for App Cntx V5.3

• EXPLOR53 - SUMMARY - Explorer HDB for CICS TS V5.3

• EXPLST53 - LIST - Explorer HDB for CICS TS V5.3

• The new CMF fields in the Templates are:• DSAPTHWT Dispatcher Allocate Pthread wait time

• NCGET Named Counter Server Get requests

• TSGETSHR Shared Temporary Storage GET requests

• TSPUTSHR Shared Temporary Storage PUT requests

• WBJSNRQL JSON message request length

• WBJSNRPL JSON message response length

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New Derived fields - Performance

• TASKMCNT - Mobile task count

• TRACKTAG - Originating Transaction Data Tag (NONE, Mobile, blank)

• TRACKORG - Point of Origin (0=No, 1=Yes)

• TRACKVAL - Tracking Tag Value (0-255)

• WLMPHASE - WLM Phase (ENDED – BTE or EXCTD – EXE)

• WLMEXECM - WLM EXE completion status (YES or NO)

• WLMRPTST - WLM BTE report status (NORMAL or ABNORMAL)

• WLMBTECT - WLM BTE transaction count

• WLMEXECT - WLM EXE transactions completed count

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New Derived fields - Statistics

• Transaction Manager• XMGTOTNUM - Total number of transactions

• Monitoring• MNGTONCP_D - CPU Time on Specialty Processor

• MNGOFLCP_D - CPU Time on CP not offload eligible

• Dispatcher TCB Modes• DSGTCBCPUR - TCB CPU/Dispatch Ratio

• VSAM LSR Pools• A08DBLRR_DATA - Data Buffer Lookasides Read Ratio

• A08DBLRR_INDX - Index Buffer Lookasides Read Ratio

• VSAM LSR Pool Buffers• A08BKLRR - Lookaside to Buffer Read Ratio

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CICS Configuration Manager V5.3

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The value of control: CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS V5.3

• New detailed comparison of CSDs

• New tracking of CICS CM change package creator ID

• Implementation of hierarchical transformation rules using

new Transformation Rule Groups

• XSLT batch sample suite allows output XML to be

processed by a Style Sheet for customized automation

• New exit point at package define time

• Disable and discard options for installation of CICSPlex

SM BAS definitions

• Beta version of a plug-in for IBM UrbanCode Deploy

(UCD)

What’s new in CICS CM V5.3?

• Manage changes throughout the life-cycle

• Create reports to identify redundant definitions,

show resource relationships, and change

management history

• Manage audit, back-out and change authorizations

CICS CM enables you to…

Changing business needs demand fast, frequent updates to resource definitions on multiple repositories across diverse environments. Amongst such complexity, a Single Point of Control with

full audit control and backout is critical. Understand the impact of definition attributes on target environments, and streamline by identifying duplicate, redundant & inconsistent resource definitions.

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What’s New in CICS Configuration Manager V5.3

• New detailed comparison of CSDs

• New tracking of CICS CM change package creator ID

• Implementation of hierarchical transformation rules using new Transformation Rule Groups

• XSLT batch sample suite allows output XML to be processed by a Style Sheet for customized automation

• New Change package exits

• Disable and discard options for installation of CICSPlex SM BAS definitions

• Beta version of a plug-in for IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD)

CSD to CSD compare

Resource definitions

stored in CSD file

or CPSM DR

Running CICS region

Runtime resources

installed in memory Extract Extract

Refine

RI check

Compare

Filter

Report

New, missing, different, RI errorsRI errors

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CSD to CSD compare: new in v5.3

Production

CSDExtract Extract

Compare

Filter

Report

Missing, different

Disaster recovery

CSD

Training

CSD

Cloned

CSD

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Change package exits: create, update, delete (not in v5.2)

• Change package concept:

• Change package exits in v5.2:

• Typical decisions for exits:• Should it continue? Check site’s change management tool

• Right user, right time, right environment, right controls, etc. ?

• Right action in the context of last action on package?

• Intent: customize exits to integrate with automated DevOps

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Development Test Production

Ready Approve Migrate Install Newcopy Discard Backout

Packaged

resource

definitions

Change package exits: create, update, delete (new in v5.3)

• New change package exits in v5.3 enable more control:

• Who is allowed to define a change package?

• Conventions/standards for business unit isolation

• Pre-fill, validate metadata such as approval profile and external reference

• Intent: customize exits to enable business unit isolationand enhance automated DevOps

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Development Test Production

Create Update Delete

Payroll

Finance

HR

Track change package creator ID• Delegated responsibilities: who did what last is important

• Automated responsibilities: who did what first is important

• Intent: track last command and creator ID for DevOps

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Change

package

Ready

Approve

Migrate

Create Jack

Jill

John

Jane

Change

package

Ready

Approve

Migrate

Create Jack

Automated

housekeeping

Change package discard

• Actions in achange packageworkflow:

• Intent: extend the change package actions for automated DevOps

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Ready Approve Migrate Install Newcopy Discard Backout

CICS region

Runtime

resources

in memory

Resource definitions

in CSD or CPSM DR

Discard CPSM-based resources

• Intent: complete the CPSM management story.Required for change package management.

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CICS region

CMAS

CICS region

LMAS

Install

Newcopy

DiscardCICS CM

server

CPSM

API

CPSM

agent

Runtime

resources

in memory

CICS CM

agent

Runtime

resources

in memory

Customized batch extracts using XSLT

• Intent: use data from CICS CM in your applications without parsing XML

• Append an XSLT step to a job that uses the batch REXX client (existing sample member)

• XSLT step uses the no-charge IBM XML Toolkit for z/OS

• XSLT style sheet sample members transform SOAP response XML to text (e.g. CSV)

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CICS CM clients CICS CM

server

ISPF dialog

Batch

CICS Explorer

Batch

REXX sample

SOAP API:

XML over HTTP

Your

application

XSLT job step

API response

as text

Customized batch extracts using XSLT

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<LIST><LOCATIONCRITERIA><LOCATIONTYPE>REPOSITORY</LOCATIONTYPE>

</LOCATIONCRITERIA><OBJECTCRITERIA>

<OBJTYPE>CHGPKG</OBJTYPE><CPID>*</CPID>

</OBJECTCRITERIA></LIST>

SOAP request

Batch REXX sample

CICS CM client

<LIST><OUTPUTDATA><RETURNCODE> 00000000 </RETURNCODE><REASONCODE> 00000000 </REASONCODE><TASKNO> 00004778 </TASKNO><LISTCOUNT> 000368 </LISTCOUNT><LISTELEMENT>

<OBJECTDATA><TYPE> CHGPKG </TYPE><OBJECTINSTANCE> 00000002 </OBJ…<CPID> ABC19512 </CPID><CHANGETIME> 2014/10/01 14:32:11…<USERID> RJA1 </USERID><DESCRIPTION> New package created…<EXTREF> </EXTREF><APPPROF> NORMAL </APPPROF><LC_APICMD> NEWCOPY </LC_APICMD><LC_SCHEME> T32MHOME </LC_SCHEME><LC_DATIME> 2014/10/10 11:54:41.13… <LC_USERID> RJA2 </LC_USERID>…

</OBJECTDATA></LISTELEMENT>…

</OUTPUTDATA></LIST>

SOAP response

CICS CM

serverXSLT job step

XSLT

style

sheet

CPID,LC_APICMD,LC_SCHEME,LC_RC,DESCRIPTIONABC19512,CREATE,T32MHOME,00000000,New…RJA01,NEWCOPY,T32MHOME,00000000,Demo…

SOAP response as text (e.g. CSV)

Lists $HOME CICS Resources Row 1 to 1 of 1Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR

Filter MY* *

/ List Prompt --- Changed ----CHK MYLIST 2015/09/16 12:18

Check analysis: list refers to undefined group

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Check - Summary $HOME CHECK Messages SummaryCommand ===>

List . . . . : MYLISTLocation . . : CCVCICS.CCVT53M.DFHCSD

Choose one of the CHECK views for display2 1. Duplicates 0 Duplicate candidates found

2. RI Errors 1 Referential-Integrity errors found3. RI Warnings 58 Referential-Integrity warnings found

Check - RI Errors $HOME CHECK Messages Row 1 to 1 of 1Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR

More: < >/ Name Type Group Prompt

MYLIST LIST N/ADescription . : GROUP not foundMessage . . . : CCV5504E (refer DFHAM4816)List name . . : MYLISTGroup number : 00001Attribute . . : GROUPValue . . . . : NEWGROUP

1.

Check

a list

2.

Summary

of results

3.

RI error

Block actions (CC…CC, etc.) in ISPF dialog

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Resources $HOME CICS Resources Row 1 to 34 of 35Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR

Filter SAMP * + RJAGRP *

/ Name Type Group Prompt --- Changed ----SAMP ATOMSERVICE RJAGRP 2015/08/05 08:19SAMP BUNDLE RJAGRP 2015/08/05 08:19

C SAMP CONNECTION RJAGRP 2015/08/05 08:19C SAMP CORBASERVER RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16C SAMP DB2CONN RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16

SAMP DB2ENTRY RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP DB2TRAN RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP DJAR RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP DOCTEMPLATE RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16

CC SAMP ENQMODEL RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP FILE RJAGRP 2015/04/01 12:46SAMP IPCONNECTION RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP JOURNALMODEL RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16

CC SAMP JVMSERVER RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP LIBRARY RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP LSRPOOL RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP MAPSET RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP MQCONN RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16SAMP PARTITIONSET RJAGRP 2014/09/30 16:16

CICS Resources Line Actions

Select a number or action code and press Enter.

16. Alter Alter a block of lines (AALT)17. Copy Copy a block of lines (CC)18. Delete Delete a block of lines (DD)19. Discard Discard a block of lines (DDSC)20. Install Install a block of lines (II)21. Newcopy Newcopy a block of lines (NN)22. Package Package a block of lines (PP)23. Rename Rename a block of lines (RREN)

Existing

non-block

actions

New

block

actions

New

Transformation groups

• A transformation group is a group of transformation rule sets.

• A migration path can refer either to a transformation rule set, as before, or to a transformation group.

• Migration path that uses a transformation rule:

• Migration path that uses a transformation group:

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Source Target Transform rule

DEVTCSD TESTCSD PAYRULES

Source Target Transform rule

DEVTCSD TESTCSD GROUP1Group Rule sets

GROUP1 TAXRULESFINRULESPAYRULES

Transformation groups

• One transformation rule set (combined business units):

• Multiple transformation rule sets (individual business units):

• Intent: simplify rules management. Organize rules into sets for each business unit. Reuse common rules between units.

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398 rules for Payroll….

543 rules for Finance….

Rules for other business units…

398 rules for Payroll

ALLRULE

PAYRULE

543 rules for Finance

FINRULE

ISPF and batch non-APF method for SAF PassTickets

• CICS CM v5.2 and earlier required you to store the load modules that gets PassTickets in an APF-authorized library.

• v5.3 removes this requirement.

• In v5.2:

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Add library to logon proc STEPLIB:

required CM-specific logon procs

or

Copy module to LINKLST or LPA:

required unique version of module

in the LPAR

CICS CM

ISPF dialog

APF-authorized library

CCVSCRPT

load module

CICS CM

batch

CCVBMAIN

load module

Get

PassTicket

Get

PassTicket

ISPF

Add library to STEPLIB

Batch

ISPF and batch non-APF method for SAF PassTickets• In v5.3, no need for these load modules to be APF-authorized

• Modules now shipped in non-APF authorized load module library, SCCVLINK

• For backward compatibility, to avoid forcing users to make changes (e.g. to JCL that referred to SCCVAUTH), load modules are also still shipped in SCCVAUTH, as AC(0) (non-APF authorized)

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No APF issues.

Any logon proc will do.

CICS CM

ISPF dialog

CCVSCRPT

load module

CICS CM

batch

CCVBMAIN

load module

Get

PassTicket

Get

PassTicket

ISPF

No APF issues.

Batch

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The power of discovery: CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS V5.3

• Support for IBM CICS Transaction Server V5.3

• RESTful API to enable discovery, cloning and

deprovision of CICS regions

• New API sample programs demonstrate how the

RESTful API can be invoked from REXX or

JavaScript

• New capability to de-provision CICS regions

discovered/created by CICS DA

• New configuration tool for easier configuration of

CICS DA server

What’s new in CICS DA V5.3?

• Visualize and manage your CICS topology

• Discover existing regions and sub-systems

• Automation creates new CICSplex

• Plexify and clone CICS regions

• Start and stop a CICS region

• Share model with other applications

CICS DA enables you to…

Rapid expansion of configuration to respond to workload spikes from growing online and mobile workloads is essential. Be ready by clearly understanding the topology of your CICS environment,

with the ability to clone and deprovision regions with ease.

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New in CICS DA v5.3 Easier configuration

Clone Enhancements

User defined name transforms

User defined actions

Automatic setting of start policies

Deprovision CICS regions

API Extensions

Better reporting

Discovery

Clone & Deprovision

Numerous RFEs addressed

CICS DA Configuration Tool

Clone: User Defined Name Transforms

Clone: User Defined Actions

Automatic setting of Start policies

Deprovision CICS regions

API Extensions – Better reporting - 1

API Extensions – Better reporting - 2

API Extensions – Better reporting - 3

API Extensions – Discovery

• Discovery can now be driven from the API• Rexx exec

• Driven from a timer?

• Driven by specific events?

• Javascript• Invoke Discovery from a web page?

• Any other program• Drive it from your iPhone?

API Extensions – Clone & Deprovision

CICS DA

Old CICS Region

DatasetsJCL /

Procs

Rexx /

Javascript /

Other

Start PROC

End PROC

Clone steps

New CICS Region

DatasetsJCL /

Procs

Name

Transforms

Cre

ate

Regio

n

Deprovision

Key Dates: RFA Oct 5th, GA Dec 11th

What’s New - In Summary

CICS Performance Analyzer V5.3Mobile workload reporting; Scenario-based reports; DB2 table upgrades easier

CICS Deployment Assistant V5.3Deprovision; RESTful API; Easier Configuration

CICS Interdependency Analyzer V5.3Support for cloud enablement of existing applications; Scenario-based collection; Easier Configuration

CICS Configuration Manager V5.3CSD Comparison; UCD Plugin; XSLT batch convert XML for use by other tooling