Application Connections workspace

The Application Connections workspace provides information about the state of connections and operations being performed by applications, such as the progress of outstanding units of work. This information can be particularly useful in decision making, for instance when deciding when to stop a queue manager.

Predefined views

The Application Connections workspace includes the following predefined views:

  • Application Topology The Application Topology view provides a graphical representation of connections between the monitored queue manager, the applications that are connected to it, and the queues opened by the applications. For details of the individual attributes displayed, see Application Topology attributes.
  • Application Connections This table displays the attributes of application connections that exist within your IBM® MQ (WebSphere® MQ) environment. There are two different ways to arrive at this workspace, which result in different data being displayed in the table:
    • When the Application Connections workspace is opened as a primary workspace, information about all application connections is displayed in this view, with the name of the queue manager at the bottom.
    • When you link to the Application Connections workspace from a row within another workspace, only a single row containing information about the selected application connection is displayed, with the name of the application at the bottom.

For more information on the attributes listed in the tables of this workspace, see Application Connections attributes.

Predefined links

You can link to the following workspace from the Application Connections workspace:

  • Connection Objects
In addition to the above workspace, the following workspaces are available in specific circumstance:
  • If you have OMEGAMON® for CICS® on z/OS® installed, you can also link to the CICS Transaction Analysis workspace. This workspace can only be link to from rows with an Appl Type value of CICS. The CICS Transaction Analysis workspace provides a comprehensive view of CICS transactions which you can use to identify problem transactions across CICS regions and z/OS images for the CICSplex. For more information about this workspace, see OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS online help.
  • If you have IBM Tivoli® Monitoring OS agent installed on your system, you can also link to Process workspace of IBM Tivoli Monitoring OS agent. The Process workspace provides you with the details of the specific process that is holding the connection. For more information about this workspace, see IBM Tivoli Monitoring online help.
  • If you have OMEGAMON XE for z/OS installed, you can also link to the Address Space CPU Usage workspace by using ASID.

    For more information about this workspace, see OMEGAMON XE on z/OS online help.