Enhancements to sampling include:
- Improved accuracy of CICS® and DASD reports.
- In CICS, DB2+ intercepts only those DB2® calls
involved in the selected transaction or from the selected terminal,
including those in collateral DB2 stored procedures.
- In CICS, IMS+ intercepts DLI calls involved only in the selected
transaction or from the selected terminal.
- In IMS™, DB2+ intercepts DB2 calls involved only
in the selected transaction, program, or user, including those in
collateral DB2 stored procedures.
- Reduced memory requirement.
- New SMF Record exit captures SMF type 120 subtype 9 records for WebSphere® activity, and type 101 records
for DB2 accounting data.
- New messages for abnormal termination of APA and Listener started
tasks.
- Support added for:
- CICS TS 4.2, including running a single JVM
- Java 6.0.1
- IMS 12
Enhancements to the ISPF observation list include:
- Indicate when sample files are about to be auto-deleted.
- Support ‘+’ and ‘-‘ commands on ReqNum heading to expand/collapse
all observations in the list.
- Support use of ‘%’ when filtering the observation list.
Enhancements to the NEW command include:
- New DDF thread selection criterion based on corrid, authid, and/or
workstation.
- New WAS data extractor for measuring activity processed by a selected
WebSphere controller address space.
- New WebSphere selection criterion based on request, application,
and/or origin.
- New WebSphere selection criterion to filter out image files and
specific file extensions.
Enhancements to reporting include:
- Display formatted SQL in DB2 report detail windows.
- Display SQL function for Remote SQL in DB2 reports.
- Display IMS subsystem and trancode/program/user in S01 report
and R02 detail window.
- New DB2 Class 3 Wait report.
- New option in S03 to combine duplicate modules.
- Disable expansion of very large wait reports.
- Support new COBOL SYSDEBUG interface.
- New WebSphere activity reports.
- Expand recommendations in S09 report to include:
- VSAM shareoption 4 not be used unless required
- VSAM reorg and increase in CI/CA freespace when excessive CI/CA
splits found
- Additional VSAM buffers when excessive EXCPs found
- Additional processors when zAAP on CP or zIIP on CP exists
- Running a DB2 Explain when long running SQL found
Enhancements to the Listener include:
- Restrict TCP/IP stack monitoring to specific IP stacks based on
a new configuration option.
Enhancements to the GUI plug-in include:
- Integration with CICS CICS Explorer® Credentials and Connections
- Additional preferences to match those available in ISPF
- Support for mixed case password and password phrases
- Support for SSL
- Support for new logging levels of Off and Fatal
- Display warning/error message text along with the message number
- In the Observation List, separate the downloaded reports icon
from the request number column into a new sortable column
- New Observation List column displays the number of days left to
sample file deletion
- Sticky notes added in observations and individual reports
- Email a report
- Save/browse current view of report as HTML
- DB2 SQL extract (for input to DB2 or visual explain products)
- Support for sample file import/export
- Produce PDF and XML reports on the user's PC
- Support for access to source stored in third-party repositories