The CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer

The CICS® IA plug-in for CICS Explorer® (CICS IA plug-in) is an Eclipse plug-in that operates on top of the IBM® CICS Explorer to help you analyze the CICS IA data, including the interdependency data, affinity data and Command Flow data. When you install the CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer there is help available on how to use the CICS IA plug-in, Help > Help Contents > CICS IA User Plug-in guide.

Using the CICS IA plug-in, you can perform the following tasks:
  • For the dependency data you can:
    • View resources used by a region, transaction or program.
    • View the programs or transactions that use a given resource.
    • View resources used by an application.
    • Create your own queries to analyze the data.
    • View detailed information for programs, transactions, files, TSQueues, Events, Exits or Regions.
    • Compare resources used by a transaction, program or region.
  • For the affinity data you can:
    • View Affinities by Region.
    • View Affinities by Transaction.
    • View Affinities by Program.
  • For the Command Flow data you can:
    • View collections by time or userid.
    • View tasks within a Collection.
    • View the execution tree for a given task.
You can also use the CICS Explorer to operate the controller. You can perform the following tasks:
  • For a given CICS region you can issue a START, STOP, PAUSE, CONTINUE or REFRESH of the dependency or affinity collection.

For information about configuring and using the CICS Explorer and the CICS Interdependency Analyzer plug-in, see http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/cics-explorer.

This site guides you on how to download the CICS Explorer and the CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer. As part of the download you receive the cicsia_plugin_release_notes.html and the cicts_explorer_release notes.html files. These files provide you with guidance on how to install and configure the CICS IA plug-in.