Programs view

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

The following programs are listed:

Screen capture of the Programs view

You can filter the programs in the list using the text field under Programs at the top of the view. You can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard, as shown in the following screen capture. The value *D* finds all programs with a D in the name, DSW* finds all programs starting with DSW, and D*W finds programs beginning with D and ending with W.

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

The following figure shows a list of programs that are restricted to display only programs that begin with DSW and include 2, and are in regions starting with IY. You create this list by entering DSW*2* in the Programs text field, and IY* in the Search Region text field

Screen capture of the Programs view with a search value of DSW*2

To run the search on the values entered in the text fields so that you can view the list of programs, press Enter.

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 capture of the Programs view with a resource selected so the menu that includes Used By Programs, Used By Transaction, Show Affinities By Type, Uses Resources and Asset Details. Used By Programs is selected so another menu is displayed with All Regions and Specific Region options.

Properties for a program or transaction are divided by collection ID, for example a transaction in a collection. If you do not set a search scope, all entries are displayed in the properties view. When you set a collection ID as a search scope, the properties display only this collection ID. If there is no entry for this collection ID in the properties table, no data is displayed.