Transaction tracking
Transaction Tracking provides the capability to identify the relationships between tasks in an application as they flow across regions in a CICS®plex in order to aid in auditing and problem determination. Functions are provided to locate specific tasks based on information in the point of origin, to find interrelated hung tasks, and to identify work initiated by non-CICS adapters (such as WebSphere® MQ).
Searching for associated tasks
When a task becomes unresponsive you can perform a search to identify all associated tasks in the CICSplex. Using the search results you can identify the task that is causing the problem, and other tasks that will be affected when you take corrective action. An associated task is one that has the same NETUOWID or TRNGRPID.
Show tasks from the same point of origin
You can use transaction tracking to identify active tasks with the same origin IP address. The address might be the address of a workstation or a web service. You might do this if you have a number of unresponsive tasks and you are trying to determine if a particular origin point is causing the tasks to hang.
Show tasks coming across the same IPIC connection
You can use transaction tracking to identify all active tasks that come across the same IPIC connection. This might be useful if particular IPIC connection is experiencing a problem with lots of transactions queueing up on it because previous tasks are not finishing quickly enough. With this search you can get a list of the active tasks and identify any that have stopped responding.
Show tasks originating from a TCP/IP service
You can identify all unresponsive tasks that originated from a specific TCP/IP service. For example, your system might be configured such that all transactions from your WebSphere Application Server come in on a specific TCP/IP service. Using transaction tracking you can identify all unresponsive tasks from the one source.
Viewing and comparing search history
CICS Explorer keeps a record of your previous search history. You can open each history record to see the results in the search view, or you can open the results in a new view to compare one or more results.