Building the CICS IA database

This section describes how to set up the Dependency, Affinity, and Load Module Scanner databases objects.

There is one set of Dependency database objects, even if you have separate dependency data and control record files for each region monitored by the Collector. Typically, you feed the dependency information in the dependency data files for each region into the Dependency database objects, which helps you to compare and contrast dependency data from different regions.

Similarly, there is one set of Affinity database objects, even if you have separate affinity data files for each region monitored by the CICS® IA Collector. Typically, you feed the affinity information in the affinity data files for each region into the Affinity database objects, which helps you to compare and contrast affinity data from different regions.

Because there is typically only one set of Dependency and one set of Affinity database objects, which contain the dependency and affinity data for all the monitored regions, you can use one instance of the Query interface to access, compare, and contrast dependency and affinity data from different regions.