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XINFO. The IT Information System. XINFO 3.4 What‘s New. H O RIZONT Software for Datacenters. Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339 München Tel ++49(0)89 / 540 162 - 0 www.horizont-it.com. XINFO 3.4. XINFO 3.4 is available since May 2009. It has following new functions:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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XINFO 3.4 What‘s New
HORIZONTSoftware for Datacenters
Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339 MünchenTel ++49(0)89 / 540 162 - 0www.horizont-it.com
The IT Information SystemXINFO
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XINFO 3.4
• Scheduling Systems (CA-7, Control-M, Cron, TWSz, UC4)
• JCL (Scanner-Improvements, Data Flowchart)
• Space z/OS (CA-Disk, SMS-Management)
• Beta 93 (Spool History)
• SMF (CICS Transactions)
• IMS (PSB/Transactions, DBD)
• Source Scanner (Assembler, Cobol, PL/1, Natural, Easytrieve)
• Eclipse Plugin
• PC Client (Line breaks)
• XINFO DS (Improvements in installation, performance, administration)
• Miscellaneous (TCP/IP Performance, ISPF Region)
• Planning (what is coming next?)
XINFO 3.4 is available since May 2009. It has XINFO 3.4 is available since May 2009. It has
following new functions:following new functions:
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Scheduling Systems
• CA-7 (Jobnetplan without Conditional Dependencies)
• Control-M (Job-Runtime-Barchart)
• Cron Scanner (Unix)
• TWS for z/OS (Barchart, Description in Netplan-Symbols,
Support of TWS for z/OS 8.5)
• UC4 (Object-Documentation, graphical Object-Hierarchy)
Improvements are implemented for following Improvements are implemented for following
schedulers: schedulers:
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CA-7 Jobnetplan
TriggerThe Jobnetplan shows different dependency types:
Job Predecessor Requirement
------------------------ CA-7 CPU JOB PREDECESSORS -------------------------FUNCTION: (FORMAT,LIST,UPD) PAGE 0001PRED FOR JOB: JOB0D LIST-SCHID: OPT SCHID LEADTM PRED-JOB NEXT-RUN 0 0099 JOB0C YES 0 0005 JOB0A YES 0 0033 ?JOB0B YES 0 0000 JOB0E YES 0 0000 /JOB0X YES
This Predecessor-Types are not always desired
New: Conditional Pred.
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CA-7 Jobnetplan
In this view, „mutually exclusive“ (negative dep.) and „conditional Dependencies“ are not shown
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CA-7 Jobnetplan
That makes the graphic better readable
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CTM Barchart - Selection
New Barchart
Selection Criteria
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CTM Barchart - Result
z/OS Jobs
Non-z/OS Jobs
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Crontab
Cron - The cron scanner reads the crontab contents from several systems
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Crontab
Easy read access to all crontabs from one single point
We recommend, to convert these tasks to a real scheduling system
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TWS Barchart - Selection
New Barchart
Select by TWS values. e.g. application id, workstation
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TWS Barchart - Result
New Barchart
TWS values
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TWS Netplan - Description
Application Description
Operation Description
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TWSz 8.5 – Operation Data
New columns for “Conditional Dependencies”
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TWSz 8.5 – Dependencies
All new fields of “Conditional Dependencies”
PS: Column X=Y/N for “ext. Pred” so far, now in additionI/E for “Conditional Dep.” int./ext.
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TWSz 8.5 – Jobnetplan
Internal “Conditional Dependency”
External “Conditional Dependency”
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TWSz 8.5 – Jobnetplan
Click “right mouse” and select “Succ./Pred. of Oper” to get detailed information about cond. dep. (see next slide)
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TWSz 8.5 – Dependency Information
All Parameters of “normal” and “conditional” Dependencies
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TWSz 8.5 – Current Plan
New fields of “Conditional Dependencies”
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TWSz 8.5 – Current Plan
Some more new fields: Submit/Execution-Destination (Virtual WS)Original RC (Noerror)
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UC4 - New Displays
New display for documentation and structured documentation (UC4-Object Type “DOCU”)
New graph for object hierarchy dependencies
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JCL
• „S001-Problem“ while reading the JCL-Libraries: – Option PT=Y (Point-Macro) is very fast, but in case of concurrent
updates, an error S001 can happen.– Option PT=N (Find-Macro) works absolutely safe, but too slow for large
libraries– Therefore we changed the behavior of PT=Y: If a S001 happens, it will
be automatically recovered and processing continues with the next member
• New Tables:– Command Statements– Set JCL variables
• JCL Dataflow: Improved GDG-Handling
Here are the most significant news implemented Here are the most significant news implemented
with the JCL scanner: with the JCL scanner:
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JCL – New Tables
The displays for the new tables
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JCL – SET JCL Variable
Search for SET JCL Variables
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JCL – SET JCL Variable
Result
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JCL – Command Statements
Search for Command Statements
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JCL – Command Statements
Result
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Data Flowchart - Include DD / DSN
Maybe you want to see only certain files…
Include and Exclude statements allow to select files you want to see, e.g. no DD=*DUMP*, but only DSN=PRD*
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Space - CA Disk Migrated
Specify selection criteria like DSN, archive date/time etc.
New displays “CA disk migrated”“CA disk backup”
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Space - CA Disk Migrated
List of the DSNDetailed information
Archive Date/Time
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Space - SMS
New Displays with complete Information about SMS- MGMTCLAS- DATACLAS- STORCLAS- Storage Group
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Beta 93 - Spool History
New display “Spool History”
Specify selection criteria, e.g. at what time did Beta93 read the report (Input Time)
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Beta 93 - Spool History
Results Detailed information
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SMF - CICS
New display “CICS Monitor Transactions”
Specify selection criteria
Answers following questions:
• When was a transaction active?• How long did it take?• How many resources did it use?• ...
The display has more than 60 columns (and 270 additional columns can be “configured”)!
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IMS - PSB/Transaction
New IMS display “PSB/Transaction”
Specify selection criteria, e.g. PSB-Name or Transcation Code
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IMS - PSB/Transaction
PSB - TransactionDetailed information
PSB - Transaction
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IMS - DBD
A lot of new displays:Complete information about DBDs, it’s Segments, Fields, Pointer etc.
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IMS - DBD General Info
e.g. DBD-Type, structure etc.
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IMS - DBD DS Group
Detailed information about DBD/Dataset: DD-Names, LRECL etc.
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IMS - DBD Segment
Detailed information about DBD/Segments
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IMS - DBD Log. Child
DBD Logical Child information
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IMS - DBD Field
DBD-, Field-, Segment-Name, detailed Information
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IMS - DBD Field - COBOL
Use the „right mouse“ click, to go to e. g. COBOL-Copybook of the Segment or to display the Variable-Definition of a field etc.
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Source-Code Scanner• New: Assembler (see extra presentation xxrdasme.ppt):
– Copy und Macros (which program uses which macros)– Calls (which program calls which program)– External Symbols– DB2 Access (EXEC SQL-Statements)– Call-Graphik (interlanguage call graphic)
• COBOL – New Display „COBOL- Variable Usage“ – New Display „COBOL- Unused Code“
• PL1– New Display „PL/1 - Variable Usage“ – New Display „PL/1- Comments“
• Natural– New Display „Natural - Variable“– Sample incremental update Jobs– Process special member names (containing „-“)– Ca. 50% less CPU consumption
• Easytrieve – Ca. 25% less CPU consumption
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COBOL - Variable Usage
New display “Variable usage”
Specify selection criteria, e.g. variable name, statement etc.
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COBOL - Variable Usage
Detailed information
Variable-Name
Statement
Line-number of Sourcecode
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COBOL - Unused Code
New display “Unused code”
Specify selection criteria, e.g. program name, section, paragraph etc.
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COBOL - Unused Code
Detailed information
Programname
From line
To lineLabel of the unused source code
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PL1 - Variable Usage
New display “variable usage”
Specify selection criteria, e.g. variable name, statement type etc.
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PL1 - Variable Usage
Detailed informationVariable-
Name Statement Type
Line-number of sourcecode
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PL1 - Comments
New display “PL1 Comments”
Specify selection criteria. It is possible to search for any text string: *string*
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PL1 - Comments
The result
PS: Sometimes mono spaced fonts like courier deliver better results
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Tip: How to change the font
1. Select “Options - General”
2. Click on “Fonts…”
3. Select “Table font”
4. Select “Courier”
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Natural - Variables
New display allows to search for variables
Specify selection criteria
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Natural - Variables
Detailed information
Variable-Name
Program-Name
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Eclipse Plugin
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Eclipse Plugin
• Eclipse is freeware
• Used in many installations, especially by Java developers– XINFO will have Java scanner mid 2009
• If customer uses RDz (Rational Developer for system z) by IBM:– These customers may also develop COBOL with Eclipse
Eclipse is a development environment that is quite Eclipse is a development environment that is quite
popular in development. XINFO 3.4 has a plugin for popular in development. XINFO 3.4 has a plugin for
Eclipse to display XINFO data within that Eclipse to display XINFO data within that
environment. Some points about Eclipse:environment. Some points about Eclipse:
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Eclipse Plugin
source code in Eclipse
Mark any word in the editor, here table
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Eclipse Plugin
XINFO menu entry offers direct access to XINFO tables
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Eclipse Plugin
Resulting XINFO table
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PC Client
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PC Client – Line Break
To read wide columns, you must scroll right
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PC Client – Line Break
A new option allows line break
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XINFO DS
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Improvements for XINFO DS
• Better Performance during DB update– Faster because of new Index and enhanced SQL-Statements
• Easier Installation– No need to maintain the configuration files and license keys locally
anymore. They can be send automatically from the central server to each local collector/scanner.
• Administrator GUI– New Views to monitor the jobs:
– Planned, Active, Finished Jobs– View the Job-Log per right mouse click
XINFO DS is the „distributed” part of XINFO and involves extra scanner XINFO DS is the „distributed” part of XINFO and involves extra scanner
for Unix/Windows systems, collectors (agents) und an own Server plus for Unix/Windows systems, collectors (agents) und an own Server plus
Administrator-GUI to control the scanner jobs. Improvements:Administrator-GUI to control the scanner jobs. Improvements:
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XINFO DS Administration
Planned scanner jobs On that
system (Collector)
Next run date/time
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XINFO DS Administration
Finished scanner jobs
Status
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XINFO DS Administration
Right mouse, show the Joblog
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Miscellaneous • TCP/IP communication
– Drastically faster (>> 100%) !It is available for all 3.x Versions Please download the latest version of the PC-Client and z/OS-Server
(XXRFXD4) from www.horizont-it.com.
• ISPF dialog– due to compression 50% less region needed (important for large result
lists)
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XINFO x.x - What’s coming next
• JAVA Scanner
• “Google” search– Specify a word and XINFO looks it up in all columns of all tables
– “all columns” and “all tables” can be administrated, means the admin can specify where to search
Following functions and features are currently under Following functions and features are currently under construction:construction:
Many thanks for your attention!
XINFOThe IT Information System
HORIZONTSoftware for Datacenters
Garmischer Str. 8 D- 80339 MünchenTel ++49(0)89 / 540 162 - 0www.horizont-it.com
