What's new in the CICS IA V3.1 plug-in

CICS® IA V3.1 plug-in.

New function
Command Flow view

You can now view the Command Flow of a Transaction under a given Task ID in the Command Flow View. Right-click a Transaction to view the collected Command Flow runs for that Transaction. You can then select the task run that you are interested in and display the execution in the Command Flow view using the Show Execution menu option. The commands executed by the run are shown in time order with their TCB mode. A summary of TCB modes used is shown alongside a summary of TCB mode switches.

Applications view

You can now view CICS IA applications in the Applications view. You can right-click an application in the Applications view to see which programs and transactions are used by that application. You can filter the Program view and the Transaction view results by application or region and define further using the toolbar.

Screen capture including the menu available in the Programs and Transactions views to sort them by either region or application.

Connections window

You can create and save multiple connections in the new connections window using the drop down text fields for Type and Name.

Connection box of the connections window showing the Type and Name dropdown
You can switch between different types of connections that you have created and saved.

Provision of Command Flow queries

You can perform queries on the Command Flow table. The command flow table contains data collected about specific runs of transactions.

Three sample queries are supplied.

screen shot of the queries view that displays the Command Flow Queries supplied sample queries.

When you run the All tasks query the results are displayed in the Resources view in a list of TRANSIDs with Task IDs listed under the TRANSID. In this example, CICS IA has collected two runs of Transaction LHM1. One has run under TASK ID 0000065C, and the other under TASK ID 0000069C.

screen shot of the Resources view that displays the results of running the Command Flow Query sample query All tasks.

You can create a query to further interrogate the particular TASK ID for a given run of a transaction.

screen capture of the edit query view showing a created query named LHM1 TASK 0000065C. The show panel lists Transaction, Task ID, Program, Command, Function Type and Resource Name. The Filter results panel shows Task ID is 0000065C and Transaction is LHM1.

The results of the query, displayed in the Resources view, identifies the actual resources of the particular run of that transaction. The results show the precise programs, resource types, resource names, and other information down the results tree.

screen capture of the resources view displaying the results of the query named LHM1 TASK 0000065C.
Provision of Natural queries New exits enable the capture of:
  • Natural program calls.
  • ADABAS calls within the Natural environment.
This data is written to a new DB2® table, CIU_NATURAL_DATA.
New IMS™ resource available to query When you create an IMS query you can now query the Calltype resource by selecting it from the menu.
Improvements to the query editor filter

If you are creating or editing a query you can specify the results by using the "Filter results" panel and you can filter the results further using the far right panel. The query editor has been enhanced so that if the column name you want to filter has a name relationship with another column, that is they have the same name, use the new radio button to select either the column of the same name or to select a value that can by entered in the panel below. The example below shows the Filter panels when there us a single column name relationship:

Screen capture that shows the filtering available when the column name chosen to be filtered by, in this example Transaction, has a single column name relationship, in this example, with Resource Name

If the column name you have chosen to filter the results by has a name relationship with more than one other column name, they are listed in a menu as shown in this example:

Screen capture that shows the filtering available when the column name chosen to be filtered by, in this example resource Name, has multiple column name relationships, in this example, with Program, Transaction and Region Applid.

The is and is not option is now a drop down menu:

Screen capture of is or is not drop down menu.