Identifying application entry points by application or operation

The CICS® IA plug-in provides a wizard to identify the application entry points for an application or operation.

Before you begin

You must have already deployed an application and then used CICS IA to collect the application data. Alternatively, you must have collected dummy data by setting the operation field on a CICS program. For more information, see Assigning an operation value to a program.

Also, ensure that your CICS IA Collector gathered detailed data for transactions, programs, and web services.

About this task

CICS platform and application data captured by CICS IA can be viewed by using the Cloud Explorer folder in the IA Navigation view.

Complete the following steps to identify application entry points for an application or operation.

Procedure

  1. In the IA Navigation view expand the Cloud Explorer folder.
  2. Right-click the specific application or operation. Depending on whether you selected an application or operation, choose one of the following options:
    • Application Entry points by Application
    • Application Entry points by Operation
    Note: You can edit the generated operation names. Override the generated name in the Operation field by entering the name that you want to use.
    The New Entry Points wizard opens. All possible entry points from the collected data that can be defined in a CICS bundle project as entry points are listed.
  3. Select all of the entry points that you want to add to either an existing CICS bundle project or a new project. The wizard creates a default name for the entry point in the Operation field based on the resource name and type.
  4. To create a new CICS bundle project, select New project in the Select or create a new project field. The CICS Explorer CICS Bundle Project wizard opens.
  5. Enter a relevant Project name and click Finish. The Bundle Overview page opens.
  6. In the New Entry Points wizard, click Finish The entry points are added to your project.

What to do next

The new CICS bundle that contains the entry points, can be included in a CICS application bundle.

The bundle, which is created is stored in the Explorer Eclipse workspace and is available to CICS bundle applications that are created in the same workspace. The bundles are also available to the CICS platform bundle and the CICS application binding bundle.