When you have the CICS® IA plug-in installed with your CICS Explorer®, the menu option Dependencies is displayed when you right-click operational resources and definitions that are supported by CICS IA.
If you have a plug-in or plug-ins installed within the CICS Explorer framework, other menu options associated with the plug-in or plug-ins are made available from the CICS Explorer views. You are not required to change to a plug-in perspective to use the properties of the plug-in.
For example, in the CICS Explorer
perspective screen capture below, the left CICSPlex® Explorer view lists all the CICS regions in the CICSPlex and indicates that three of the
six CICS regions in that CICSplex
are active. Three of the active CICS regions
are flagged with the CICS IA icon that indicates that the CICS region is supported by CICS IA. The CICS Explorer Regions view, on the
upper right, is populated by the active CICS regions
in the selected CSYSPLX01. The CICS IA
Regions view, on the lower right, identified by the
icon, is populated by the CICS region information collected by CICS IA. The CICS region identifiers in the CICS IA view correspond with the CICS region names in parentheses in the CICSplex
Explorer view.
The menu options available for the operational resources depend on the type of resource. The following examples illustrate the different CICS IA Dependencies menu options that are displayed.
Regions tab Dependencies menu options
Tasks tab Dependencies menu
Transactions tab Dependencies menu
File tab Dependencies menu
When you are working with operational resources, and request CICS IA data, CICS IA uses the APPLID for the CICS region in which that operational resource exists. However, when you are working with definitions there is no APPLID available for CICS IA to use, so all searches run across all CICS regions. The toolbar in the view in which the results of your search are displayed, indicates if the search was run for a specific CICS region or across all CICS regions.