Comparison of Resources
CICS IA transactions are associated with multiple resources named Programs, Transactions, Mapset, condition, text, etc. This feature provides an option to compare these resources.
Use the “Comparison of Resources” icon in the toolbar item from the IA Navigation view to compare the resources of the transactions under the same/different collector ID, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Comparison of resources Toolbar Item
A dialog pop-up will appear once you click on the toolbar item, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Qualifier Dialog Box
You must choose the Select Region, Select Collection ID, and Select Transaction qualifiers from the dropdown and click Continue to proceed.
Figure 3: Qualifier dialog with inputs
Once you select Continue, it will load all the resources for the respective Transaction in a view. Users are provided with the following toolbar items, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Comparison of resources View
Toolbar Items:
- Expand All - Clicking on the Expand All icon in the toolbar expands all the loaded resources in the tree structure from the root.
- Collapse All - Clicking on the Collapse All icon in the toolbar collapses all the loaded resources in the tree structure.
- Similar Resources - Clicking on the Similar Resources icon in the toolbar filters all the similar resources in the tree structure.
- Dissimilar Resources - Clicking the Dissimilar Resources icon in the toolbar filters all the dissimilar resources in the tree structure.
- All Resources - Clicking on the All Resources icon in the toolbar removes the applied filters and displays all the resources.
Note:
- Black foreground text color indicates all the resources are Similar.
- Red foreground text color indicates all the resources are Dissimilar.
- Asterisk (*) at the end indicates sub-resources are different.