Upgrading to the CICS IA V5.5 plug-in

From CICS® IA V5.3 onwards, the CICS IA plug-in perspective opens, by default, in the IA Navigation view. Several of the previous navigational views are now consolidated within the IA Navigation view. The IA Navigation view displays the previous navigational views as folders in a tree structure. The IA Operations view is unchanged.

Within the IA Navigation view, you can expand each of the folders to see the contents. You can also right-click the folder name to display the menu options.

You can use the IA Navigation view to access the following areas:
  • Queries
  • Regions
  • Applications
  • Cloud Explorer
  • User Command Flow
  • Scanner
  • Reports

To help you compare the differences between the CICS IA perspectives, the following screen captures show examples of the new IA Navigation view and the previous CICS IA v5.3 and V5.2 perspective.

Here is an example of a CICS IA V5.5 perspective.

Screen capture of the CICS IA V5.5 perspective workbench.

Here is an example of a CICS IA V5.3 perspective.

Screen capture of the CICS IA V5.3 perspective workbench.

Here is an example of a CICS IA V5.2 perspective.

Screen capture of the CICS IA V5.2 perspective workbench.

For more information, see IA Navigation view.