CICS IA Command Flow components

CICS® IA comprises a number of the Command Flow components, which divide into collecting and reporting parts.

Refer to CICS IA dependency-related components for the Collector structure.

CICS IA contains the following Command Flow components:
The Command Flow Collector
The Command Flow Collector collects all CICS, DB2®, MQ and IMS™ commands in chronological order and writes them to the CICS Journal log stream.
The Command Flow database objects
The Command Flow database objects contain data extracted from the CICS Journal log stream created by the Collector. It is updated periodically to add data from new or infrequently run applications. See The structure of the Command Flow table objects.
The CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer®
The CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer provides a graphical front end to CICS IA. For more information, see the IBM® CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer User Guide.