IA Navigation view
The IA Navigation view provides a list of key folders, in a tree structure, that you can use to analyze the data that is collected by CICS® IA. Explore and analyze the data to understand the different relationships, the interdependencies, and the data flow within applications.
When you switch to the CICS IA perspective, the IA Navigation view opens by default. In the IA Navigation view, you can expand each of the folders to run queries, see the details of your CICS regions and applications, investigate the data flow, and run reports. The following screen capture shows the listed folders in the IA Navigation view.

Use the following list of folders in the IA Navigation view to investigate the data that is collected by CICS IA:
- Queries
- Regions
- Applications
- Cloud Explorer
- User Command Flow
- Scanner
- Reports
Expand Queries to see the wide range of standard queries that are supplied. You can modify these queries or create new queries to obtain specific results. For more information, see Queries.
Expand Regions to see the list of CICS regions that CICS IA collected data for. For more information, see Regions.
Expand Applications to see the list of all of the applications that were defined in CICS® TS versions earlier than CICS TS Version 5.1 and that were collected by using CICS IA Version 3.2 or earlier. For more information, see Applications.
Expand Cloud Explorer to see the list of CICS® TS platforms and applications that were collected by CICS IA for CICS® TS 5.2 onwards. For more information, see Cloud Explorer.
Expand User Command Flow to see the list of user IDs and the command flows that they ran. For more information, see User Command Flow.
Expand Scanner to see the list of results from running the CICS IA scanners. For more information, see Scanner.
Expand Reports to create affinity reports, build files of CICSPlex® SM Workload Manager (WLM) transaction groups for input to CICSPlex® SM, and to view saved reports. For more information, see Reports.