Overview

The CICS® IA plug-in provides an Eclipse-based infrastructure to identify CICS application resources and their interdependencies and to analyze transaction affinities.

The CICS IA plug-in consists of two parts:
  1. The Collector monitors all calls to CICS and captures them in DB2® database tables. Each call to CICS is called an interaction. Each interaction consists of a number of pieces of information such as the region, transaction ID, and the name of the program that issues the CICS call. Details about the CICS call itself, such as the function name and the resource type, are also captured, with additional information such as the transient control block and whether the transaction is associated with a terminal.
  2. The graphical user interface (GUI) client. Use the CICS IA plug-in to analyze and explore the collected data about CICS interactions and CICS, Affinity, IMS™, DB2, and MQ resources. The CICS IA plug-in requires the location of the DB2 database in which the Interdependency Analyzer has stored data. Use the Connection preferences window to enter this information. When you have made a successful connection between the CICS IA plug-in and the DB2 collector tables, you can search to find resources and analyze their usage and their dependencies.