Which resources are used by programs and transactions

From any view where a transaction or program resource is shown in the CICS® IA plug-in, you can explore resources further to see which resources the transaction is using and in which regions.

What to do next

Use the menu option Uses Resources to show the regions in which the program or transaction resource is being used. You can specify the region use that you want to analyze, in addition to use across all regions.

Screen shot that shows the Resources view with the Asset details menu and highlighting Uses Resources which displays All Regions and Specific region

This menu is also available from the Search toolbar menu Search>Uses.

The information about the selected resource and region populates the Uses view.

The resources program or transaction uses are shown in the Resources Used view organized into folders by type.

The run hierarchy that the current program or transaction starts is shown in the bottom view.

When you select a resource, the By Resource view is populated with information about the programs and transactions that use the resource.

A screen shot of the Uses view that shows a program selected and the populated By Resource view.

The screen capture above shows the programs that use TSTSCCIL in the bottom section of the Uses panel.

When a resource is selected, you can navigate the points in the run hierarchy where the resource is used, using the up yellow upward arrow and down yellow downward arrow arrow buttons.

Screen shot showing yellow downward arrow function Get next item in execution tree
Screen shot showing yellow upward arrow function Get previous item in execution tree

When you select a program in the Resource used section, the hierarchy shows the first resource in the tree that uses the program.

Screen shot of Programs using the selected program.

If you navigate down the tree using the arrow buttons, you reach the next resource that uses the same program.

Screen shot of Programs using the resource selected in the Resources used panel