Before you can work with CICS® Interdependency
Analyzer (CICS IA) you must
connect to your CICS systems.
You can then analyze the data captured by the Collector.
The workbench
The CICS IA plug-in workbench
is a single window that consists of multiple views.
Configuring a CICS IA system connection
Before you can view any information, you must establish
a connection between the CICS IA plug-in and
your CICS system by providing
details about the DB2® location
settings. You must also enter your authentication requirements, user
IDs and passwords in the Credentials view.
Configuring a CICS IA Collector connection
Before you can work with collectors you must have an IA
Collector connection configured. Contact your system administrator
for details of the collector connections that you want to use.
Selecting Additional Resource Types
The CICS IA plug-in can
download data about other resources types. You can select what types
to include in Preferences under CICS Interdependency Analyzer.
CICS resources
Resources are displayed in several places in the CICS IA plug-in.
You can locate and view these resources in several ways.
Integration
You can use aspects of the CICS IA
plug-in to interrogate data using the CICS Explorer perspective and Rational Developer for System
Z views.
Searching
You can search for resources in many ways. You can search
from the toolbar using explicit names or wildcards, or you can create
and use queries defined using a Query Editor.
Using Affinities
CICS transactions
and programs use many different techniques to pass data from one to
another. Some of these techniques require that the transactions or
programs exchanging data must run in the same CICS region. This imposes restrictions on the
regions to which transactions and distributed program link (DPL) requests
can be dynamically routed. If transactions or programs exchange data
in ways that impose such restrictions, there is said to be an affinity
among them.
Comparing resources
You can compare the results of previous resource searches.
You can refine the comparison by combining results or excluding them.