Creating your own program exclude, transaction exclude, and resource prefix lists

You can use program exclude lists, transaction exclude lists, and resource prefix list to limit the volume of information collected by the Collector. In this section the term, Collector, refers to the Affinity and Dependency collector functions. The User Command Flow collector function does not reference the exclude lists.

For details of how to specify command flow exclude information, see Managing the Command Flow collection using transaction CINC.

A program exclude list contains a list of program-name prefixes; the Collector does not collect data for any program that has the name beginning with one of the prefixes. Similarly, a transaction exclude list contains a list of transaction-name prefixes; the Collector does not collect data for any transaction that has a name beginning with one of the prefixes.

For details of how to specify which exclude lists the Collector is to use, see Specifying region-specific options: General.

CICS® IA supplies sample program exclude, transaction exclude, and resource prefix lists:

The default program exclude list, supplied with CICS IA, is called CIUXPROG; it contains the name prefixes of IBM® components about which you do not normally want to collect information.
The default transaction exclude list, supplied with CICS IA, is called CIUXTRAN and is empty.
The default program prefix list, supplied with CICS IA, is called CIUPFXTB and is empty.