The CICS® IA plug-in provides a wizard to identify
the entry points by a specific resource that is used. You can select to group the entry points by
transaction, program, or web service only.
Before you begin
Ensure that your CICS IA Collector gathered detailed data
for transactions, programs, and web services.
About this task
For transaction and program grouping, CICS IA returns the
following data:
- The transactions that are using the resource.
- The initial program within the transaction that is using the resource.
- The actual programs that are using the resource.
For web services grouping, CICS IA returns the following data:
- The web services that are using the resource.
- The programs that are associated with the web services that are using the resource.
- The URIMAPs associated with the web services that are using the resource.
- The actual programs that are using the resource.
Complete the following steps to identify entry points by the resource they use.
Procedure
- In any of the CICS IA views, right-click the specific
resource.
- Select Application Entry points by resource used and choose either
All Regions or Specific Region.
The New Entry Points wizard opens.
- Select the type of grouping you want in the Call Type field. You can
choose from on of the following types:
The wizard is populated with all of the possible entry points.
- Select the release of CICS Transaction Server that you
are going to deploy to. The CICS TS release that you select
determines which types of entry points you can create. You can select from the following CICS TS releases:
- V5.1 supports program entry points only.
- V5.2 supports program and URIMAP entry points.
- V5.3 supports transaction, program, and URIMAP entry points.
- V5.5 also supports transaction, program, and URIMAP entry points.
- Select the tree type according to which you want to arrange the results. There are three tree types that you can choose from:
- Tree by region
- Tree by application
- Tree by application with dependencies
Note: You can edit the generated operation names. Override the generated name in the
Operation field by entering the name that you want to use.
- Optional: 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 wizard, click Finish The entry points are added to your project.
What to do next
The new CICS bundle that contains the entry points, 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.