What's new in the CICS IA Version 5.5 plug-in
Enhancements to the CICS® IA Version 5.5 plug-in.
Suggesting Good Candidates (Programs) for API Enablement:
A new menu item has been included in the IA Navigation view to allow Users to find the programs that don't have presentation logic and are suitable candidates for being exposed as an API. These candidates (programs) can be viewed using the new menu item, 'Programs for API Enablement' on any region from the IA Navigation view. For more information, see API Enablement.
Simplified Used By Views
The messages displayed in the 'Used By' view of the CICS IA Version 5.5 (plug-in), are more detailed and meaningful, for better understanding of the application flow and resource interdependency. For more information, see Used By view.
Updated Resource Usage visualization
CICS IA Version 5.5 provides a better view of the Resource Usage Visualization with an updated Expand and Collapse feature, along with a step-by-step discovery mechanism to display the connections between transactions and programs, or between CICS®, DB2®, IMS™, or WebSphere® MQ resources. For more information, see Resource Usage Visualization view and Resource Connections view.
Enhancement of 'User Command Flow' in IA Navigation view
In CICS IA Version 5.5, the 'User Command Flow' section of the IA Navigation view (that displayed only the Timestamps of the transactions triggered by a User ID previously) additionally shows the triggered Transaction ID, beside each Timestamp and Task-ID, for a quicker analysis by users without having to navigate to the execution view of each task. For more information, see User Command Flow.