Reference information
These topics provide reference information about the CICS® IA® plug-in.
- Affinities view
The Affinities view displays an alphabetical list of resources with potential affinities related to the target object. - Affinity Build view
Use the Affinity Build view to view and edit the contents of a CICSPlex® SM Workload Manager (WLM) transaction group file. This file contains combined affinity transaction groups that are suitable for input to CICSPlex SM. You can also specify the deployment parameters, modify the CICSPlex SM input, review the JCL job, and deploy the transaction group definitions to CICSPlex SM. - Affinity Report view
Use the Affinity Report view to view the contents of an affinity report. - API Enablement
Use the 'Programs for API Enablement' menu item in the IA Navigation view to identify good candidates (programs) for API enablement. - Applications
Expand Applications in the IA Navigation view to list 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. - Cloud Explorer
CICS TS Platform and Application data that is collected by CICS IA is displayed when you expand Cloud Explorer in the IA Navigation view. - Collection IDs view
The Collection IDs view displays the collection identifiers that you can select to scope the results returned to the CICS IA plug-in. - Command Flow Editor
Use the Command Flow Editor to edit the command flow collector options for your currently connected user ID. The collector must be in the Stopped state. - Command Flow Diagram view
The Command Flow Diagram view shows a timeline of the commands that the Command Flow Collector has collected. Commands are grouped by program, then displayed in rows or columns that represent the different platforms and applications, regions, or Task Control Block (TCB) modes that were used. - Command Flow view
The Command Flow view shows the execution details of a selected task. It shows the Task Control Block (TCB) modes that were used, any TCB mode switches, and a command flow table. - DB Retrieval Debug view
The DB Retrieval Debug view shows details of the SQL queries that are issued by the CICS IA or CICS PA plug-in and that are being logged. You can use this view to start or stop logging the SQL queries, and to clear the table of entries in the view. - 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. - IA Operations view
The IA Operations view shows a list of collectors that are defined for an IA Collector connection. You must have at least one IA Collector connection that is configured to work with collectors. Contact your system administrator for details of the collector connections to use. - Outline view
Use the Outline view to display a view of the complete contents of the Resource Usage Visualization view or the Resource Connections view, with reduced size resource elements. - CICS Interdependency Analyzer Preferences
You can use the CICS Interdependency Analyzer Preferences panes to change general settings for the CICS IA perspective. These settings include whether to download data about DB2®, IMS™ or WebSphere® MQ resource types, default values for JCL generation, highlight color, and Rational® Asset Analyzer (RAA®) connection configuration. - Programs view
The Programs view shows an alphabetical list of all programs known to CICS IA. - Program details view
The Program details view shows the properties of a program in CICS IA. - Program Flows editor
You can create a report of grouped program flows of a CICS TS Transaction that was collected by the Command Flow Collector. - Queries
The predefined queries that are supplied with the CICS IA plug-in, any queries that you created and saved, and any query results that you saved are displayed when you expand Queries in the IA Navigation view. You can create, edit, or run a query, and organize queries and their results into folders and subfolders. - Regions
CICS region information that is collected by CICS IA is displayed when you expand Regions in the IA Navigation view. You can filter this data to refine the information that is displayed. - Threadsafe Report view
Use the Threadsafe Report view to view or create summary or detailed reports of threadsafe issues in HTML format. - Report Browser view
Use the Report Browser view to view the contents of saved affinity or threadsafe reports. - Reports
To create affinity reports, and build files of CICSPlex SM Workload Manager (WLM) transaction groups for input to CICSPlex SM expand Reports in the IA Navigation view. You can also manage saved affinity reports, threadsafe reports, and transaction group files in folders in the CICS Explorer® workspace. - Resource Connections view
You can use the Resource Connections view to display the connections between transactions and programs, or between CICS, DB2, IMS, or MQ resources. - Resource Usage Visualization view
Use the Resource Usage Visualization view to display a visual representation of programs and transactions as groups. - Scanner
The results of running the CICS IA scanners are displayed when you expand Scanner in the IA Navigation view. Expand Scanner to view the results, which are sorted by data set name. - Show Resources view
The Show Resources view displays resources from a number of sources, including searches run from the toolbar, from the Queries view, and from the Regions view. - Transactions view
The Transactions view shows an alphabetical list of all transactions known to CICS IA. - Used By view
You can further explore a resource from any view where a resource is available. You can view the programs and the transactions that are using the resource, and the associated regions. - User Command Flow
The list of command flow runs, which are sorted by user ID, is displayed when you expand User Command Flow in the new IA Navigation view. Expand User Command Flow to view the user IDs for which CICS IA collected data. - Uses view
From any view where a transaction or program is shown in the CICS IA plug-in, you can explore resources further to see which resources the transaction is using and in which regions. - Web Services view
The Web Services view displays an alphabetic list of all web services known to CICS IA, both inbound and outbound. - DB2 errors
You might get some error messages that contain DB2 SQL error codes. DB2 SQL error codes are created by interactions with the DB2 database and are out of the control of the CICS IA plug-in. - Enabling hover help for screen readers
The CICS IA plug-in uses hover help to provide you with extra information; however, this help might not be readily available when using a screen reader such as JAWS
Parent topic: CICS IA plug-in User Guide