Integration with CICS Explorer

When you have the CICS® IA plug-in installed with your CICS Explorer™, the menu option Dependencies is displayed when you right-click operational resources and definitions that are supported by CICS IA.

If you have a plug-in or plug-ins installed within the CICS Explorer framework, other menu options associated with the plug-in or plug-ins are made available from the CICS Explorer views. You are not required to change to a plug-in perspective to exploit the properties of the plug-in.

For example in the CICS Explorer perspective screen capture below, the left CICSPlex® Explorer view lists all the CICS regions in the REDBPLEX and indicates that four of the eleven CICS regions in that CICSplex are active. Three of the active CICS regions are decorated with the CICS IA CICS IA yellow parcel icon icon that indicates that the CICS region is supported by CICS IA. The CICS Explorer Regions view, on the top right, is populated by the active CICS regions in the selected REDBPLEX. The CICS IA Regions view, on the bottom right, identified by the CICS IA yellow parcel icon icon, is populated by the CICS region information collected by CICS IA. The CICS region identifiers in the CICS IA view correspond with the CICS region names in brackets in the CICSplex Explorer view.

Screen capture of the CICS Explorer perspective as described above

The menu options available for the Operational resources depends on the type of resource. The examples below illustrate the different CICS IA Dependencies menu options that are displayed.

Regions tab Dependencies menu options

Regions tab Dependencies menu options, Resources, Files, Maps, Temporary Storage, Transient Data, Programs Used, and Transactions Used.

Tasks tab Dependencies menu

Tasks tab Dependencies menu, Used by Programs, Used By Transactions, Show Execution, Uses Resources, Asset details

Transactions tab Dependencies menu

Transactions tab Dependencies menu, Used by Programs, Used By Transactions, Show Command Flow runs, Uses resources, Asset details

File tab Dependencies menu

File tab Dependencies menu, Used By Programs, Used By Transactions

When you are working with operational resources, and request CICS IA data, CICS IA uses the APPLID for the CICS region in which that operational resource exists. However, when you are working with definitions there is no APPLID available for CICS IA to use, so all searches run across all CICS regions. The tool bar in the view in which the results of your search are displayed, indicates if the search was run for a specific CICS region or across all CICS regions, as shown in the following screen captures.

screen capture of the tool bar information 'Programs using Transaction(CKAM) in Region IYDZEJOB

screen capture of the tool bar information 'Progams using File(ACCTFILE) in all Regions.