The CICS® IA plug-in provides a wizard to identify
the resource dependencies for an application or an operation.
Before you begin
You must have already deployed an application and then used CICS IA to collect the application data. Alternatively, you must have collected dummy data by
setting the operation field on a CICS program. For more
information, see Assigning an operation value to a program.
Also, ensure that your CICS IA Collector gathered detailed
data for transactions, programs, and web services.
About this task
CICS IA can report the following CICS Transaction Server dependencies:
- ATOMSERVICE
- DB2CONN
- DB2ENTRY
- DB2TRAN
- DOCTEMPLATE
- ENQMODEL
- EVENTBINDING
- EPADAPTER
- EPADAPTERSET
- EPASDAPTER
- EVENTBINDING
- FILE
- JOURNALMODEL
- JSONTRANSFRM
- JVMSERVER
- LIBRARY
- MAPSET
- MQCONN
- PARTITIONSET
- PIPELINE
- PROCESSTYPE
- PROGRAM
- SCACOMPOSITE
- TCPIPSERVICE
- TDQUEUE
- TRANSACTION
- TRANSID
- TSQMODEL
- URIMAP
- WEBSERVICE
- XMLTRANSFORM
You can also identify dependencies for a platform.
Note: CICS IA
currently does not collect information on many of these resource types
unless they are used in an SPI command such as
INQUIRE TSMODEL.
CICS IA also reports if there is
a dependency on a DB2® connection
or a WebSphere® MQ connection.
Complete
the following steps to identify dependencies by application or operation.
Procedure
- In any of the CICS IA
views, right-click the specific application or operation.
- Depending on whether you selected an application or operation, choose one of the following
options:
- Application dependencies by Application
- Application dependencies by Operation
The New Dependencies wizard opens. All possible dependencies from
the data collected that can be defined in a CICS bundle
project as a dependency are listed.
- Select the type of CICS dependency.
Note: If the Type is DB2CONN or MQCONN,
you can edit the dependency name. Override the generated name in the Name
field by entering the name that you want to use.
The wizard is populated with all of the possible entry
points.
- To create a new CICS Bundle, select New
project in the Select or create a new project field. Otherwise,
select an existing CICS bundle project to update. The CICS Explorer®
CICS Bundle Project wizard opens.
- If you are creating a new project, enter a relevant Project
name and click Finish. The Bundle Overview page opens.
- In the New Entry Points wizard, click Finish The entry points are added to your project.
What to do next
The new CICS bundle
that contains the dependencies, can be included in a CICS application bundle.
The bundle, which is created is stored in the Explorer Eclipse workspace and is available to CICS
bundle applications that are created in the same workspace. The bundles are also available to the
CICS platform bundle and the CICS application binding bundle. Some of the dependencies might relate
to a specific platform.