The CICS® IA plug-in provides a wizard to identify
the entry points for a number of resource types. For example, a file. The wizard can be run against
a transaction, a program, or a web service. The wizard returns all of the entry points that use the
same resource type as the initial transaction, program, or web service.
Before you begin
Ensure that your CICS IA Collector gathered detailed data
for transactions, programs, and web services.
About this task
For a program and transaction CICS IA returns the
following data:
- The transactions that are using the resource.
- The initial program for the transaction that is using the resource.
- The actual programs that are using the resource.
For web services CICS IA returns the following data:
- The web services that are using the resource.
- The programs associated with the web services that are using the resource.
- The URIMAPs that are 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 resource type.
Depending on which resource type you want to identify the entry points for, choose the relevant
option throughout the following procedure.
Procedure
- In the CICS IA perspective, open the view for the
resource type you want to identify the entry points for. Select from the following choices:
- Programs
- Transactions
- Web Services
- Locate the specific resource. Right-click the resource and select the relevant option from the
following choices:
- Application Entry points by program resource usage
- Application Entry points by transaction resource usage
- Application Entry points by webservice resource usage
- Select whether you want the entry points for All Regions or
Specific Region. The New Entry Points wizard opens.
- Select the type of resource. You can choose one from the following list of CICS resource types:
- CHANNEL
- CONTAINER
- CURSOR
- FILE
- MAP
- MAPSET
- PCB
- PSB
- QUEUE
- TABLE
- TDQUEUE
- TSQUEUE
- VIEW
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
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.
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.
- 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 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.