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:
- 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.
- 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.