What's new in this release?
CICS® PA
plug-in version 5.1.0 is a refresh for compatibility with CICS Explorer® version
5.1.0
Version 5.1.0 adds further enhancements to the CICS PA plug-in:
- A new perspective has been added: The CICS Cloud perspective which
you can use to view all cloud resources in a CICSplex.
- Connections between CICS PA and CICS servers can now use Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) for increased security.
- Explorer updates and plug-ins can now be managed from a single
composite update site. See the CICS Explorer documentation for more
information.
- Change layouts to display the data exactly as you want it.
- Save your sheet view layout as a template for reuse later. You
can also include the filter in the template.
- Export and import sheet view layouts
- Use advanced where clauses for filtering.
- Filter the data by values and date-time.
- Sort according to any data value.
- Sorting is now done on the server for improved performance and
to provide more flexibility for data selection.
- The date control has been moved to the tool bar for easier access.
- Analysis of transaction suspend data can now be displayed as charts.
- Toleration of CICS TS version 5.1.0 and new performance metrics.
- Provision of new Navigator aspect explicitly for the new Application
Context performance summary
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System requirements and prerequisites
The CICS PA plug-in version 5.1.0 must
be installed in the CICS
Explorer version 5.1.0.
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Downloading and installing the CICS PA plug-in
To download
the CICS PA plug-in from the
download website:
- Click the CICS PA plug-in
download link.
- Save the compressed file in a temporary directory. Do NOT extract
the file. The CICS Explorer extracts
the contents automatically.
To install the CICS PA
plug-in in the CICS Explorer:
- Launch the CICS Explorer.
- Click Help on the CICS Explorer menu bar and click Install
New Software in the drop-down menu. The Available Software
window is displayed.
- Click the Add button. The Add Repository
archive dialog box is displayed.
- Click the Archive button. The Repository
archive dialog box is displayed.
- Locate and select the CICS PA
plug-in compressed file you downloaded previously, and click Open.
- Click OK in the Add Repository dialog box.
The dialog box closes and the tool is displayed in the Software Updates
and Add-ons dialog box.
- Click the Select All button and click Next.
- In the Install dialog box, confirm the installation by clicking Next.
- Review the license and click the relevant radio button. Click Finish to
complete the installation, or Cancel if you
do not accept the license.
- If you accepted the license, the CICS PA
plug-in is installed into the CICS
Explorer. You are prompted to restart the CICS Explorer to ensure that the plug-in
starts in a clean environment.
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Getting started
If
you are not familiar with the CICS PA
plug-in you can read the Getting Started information in the help documentation.
Click to display the basic tutorial for
the CICS PA plug-in.
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Known issues and limitations
The
following limitations exist in CICS PA plug-in Version 5.1:
- If your DB2 connection is secured by using SSL, the following
limitations apply:
- It is not possible to bypass certificate management with the DB2/JDBC
driver. Therefore, the Bypass certificate management checkbox in the
certificate preference page is ignored for this type of connection.
- The DB2/JDBC driver automatically chooses a default Secure Socket
protocol of TLSv1. It is not possible to overwrite this protocol by
using The Advanced socket configuration in the certificate preference
page.
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