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 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
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.
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
Tasks tab Dependencies menu
Transactions tab Dependencies menu
File tab Dependencies menu
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.