These tasks illustrate how you can use the CICS® IA® plug-in to
analyze and explore the collected data about CICS interactions and CICS, Affinity, IMS™, DB2®, and MQ resources.
Searching for resources
You can search for resources from the CICS IA perspective
toolbar, or you can use queries. You can use predefined queries that
are supplied with the CICS IA plug-in,
or create and use your own queries.
Analyzing transactions
You can analyze transactions shown in the Transaction view
in a number of ways. The list of transactions includes the transactions
in which programs are running and transactions that are the results
of interactions; that is, they are CICS resources of type TRANSID.
Understanding affinities
CICS IA provides a number of utilities to help you
to understand and resolve your CICS region Affinities when
you implement CPSM Work Load balancing. You can also view the affinities.
Creating a report of threadsafe issues
You can create summary or detailed reports of threadsafe
issues in HTML format. To create a threadsafe report, you can use
a view that shows the region, program, or transaction for which you
require a report, or you can use the Report view.
Creating a scenario-based collection
To focus on a particular aspect about a CICS region, you
can create a scenario-based collection for a single CICS region. You can select the type of collection
that you want to run and the resource types that you want to be included.
Depending on which collection you select, the CICS IA options for
the specific scenario-based collection are turned on before the collector
is started.
Creating CICS bundles for application entry points and dependencies
CICS IA Version
5.5 assists you to create a CICS bundle
that defines the entry points for your application. This bundle can
then be included in your CICS application
bundle, which enables you to quickly create a CICS Transaction Server V5 cloud application
and deploy the application in to a CICS TS
V5 platform.
Viewing a command flow timeline
You can view a timeline of the commands that the Command
Flow Collector has collected. The commands are grouped by program,
then displayed in rows or columns that represent the different platforms
and applications, regions, or Task Control Block (TCB) modes that
were used.
Comparing resources
You can compare the results of previous resource searches.
You can refine the comparison by combining results or excluding them.
Logging SQL queries
You can log all the SQL queries that are issued by the CICS IA or CICS PA plug-in,
and view the query text, the time when the query was issued, and the
ID of the process thread that executed the query.
Changing the highlight color
You can use the Details pane in the Preferences window
to change the color that is used for highlighting in the CICS IA perspective.
For example, highlighting is used in the Program details view.
Purging obsolete programs
During a long period of data collection, CICS IA
can collect data about multiple versions of a program, even though only one program version is
allowed to run in a region at a time. This behavior might increase the database storage overhead.
Purge old versions of programs to free storage in your database.
Creating a program flows report
You can create a report of grouped program flows of a CICS TS Transaction that was
collected by the Command Flow Collector.