Programs

The CICS® IA plug-in Programs view shows an alphabetic list of all programs known to CICS IA.

The programs include the following:

Screen shot of the Programs view

To filter the programs in the list, use the Programs name field. An implicit wildcard is added when you type values regardless of whether other explicit wildcards are used. For example, a value of FIN is read as FIN* and shows all programs beginning with FIN.

If you need an explicit wildcard, use the * character to mean any character. For example, *FIN finds all programs including FIN, and F*N will finds programs beginning with F and including N.

To restrict the list of regions from which programs are retrieved, use the Search Region text field.

The figure below shows the list of programs that has been restricted to display only those that begin with FIN and include 5, and are in regions starting with IY. You create this list by entering FIN*5 in the Programs name field, and IY in the Search Region text field

Screen shot of the Programs view with a search value of FIN*5

To run the search on the values entered in the text fields so that you can view the list of programs, press Enter or use the toolbar Search>Run menu option.

Right-click the program name that you want to analyze to see the resources it uses and where it is used, either across all regions or for a specific region.

Screen shot of the Programs view with a resource selected so the menu that includes Used By Programs, Used By Transaction, Uses Resources and greyed out Asset Details. Used By Programs is selected so another menu is displayed with All Regions and Specific Region options.