Transactions

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

The list of transactions includes all transactions known to CICS IA, including the transactions in which programs are running and transactions that are the results of interactions; that is, they are CICS resources of type TRANSID.

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To filter the transactions in the list, use the left text field at the top of the view. An implicit wildcard is added, so a value of V2 shows all transactions starting with V2. If an explicit wildcard is needed, the * character means any character, so *2 means all transactions ending in 2 and V*2 means all programs starting with V and including 2. To restrict the list of regions from which transactions are retrieved, use the Search Region text field.

The following screen capture shows the list of transactions, which has been restricted to display only transactions that begin with V and include 2 and are in regions beginning with I, by entering V*2 in the left text field, and I in the Search Region text field.

Screen capture of the transaction view that shows the results of the search using V*2, the results are VA20, V200, V220.

Press Enter to search or use the toolbar Search>Run menu option.

To analyze a transaction across all regions or for a specific region, right-click the transaction name and select one of the options from the menu. You can see the resources the transaction uses and where it is used.

Screen capture if the Transaction view with TWEB selected that displays the menu that includes Show Command Flow runs, Show Tasks, Used By Programs, Used By Transaction, Uses Resources, Show View and Asset Details. Used By Programs is selected so another menu is displayed with All Regions and Specific Region options.