Running the Dependency Reporter

This section describes how to run the CICS® IA Dependency Reporter. The Dependency Reporter consists of a batch job, CIUJCLRP, that produces reports of the dependencies found by the Collector.

The dependency-causing program commands that can be reported on are those listed in Dependency-related commands. The program commands that are actually reported depend on:
  1. The transactions and commands that you specified to be monitored by the Collector. See Specifying region-specific options: API and SPI commands to be monitored.
  2. The types of command, CICS, DB2®, MQ, IMS™, or ALL, that you specify to be reported on the REPTYPE DD statement of the Reporter job; see REPTYPE in Modifying a Dependency Reporter Job .
  3. If CICS commands are to be reported, the CICS command groups that you specify on the CMDGRPS DD statement of the Reporter job; see the CMDGRPS DD statement in Modifying a Dependency Reporter Job.
If your dependency data files are shared by multiple regions, you can run one Reporter job to produce a report showing dependencies, for example, dependencies on CICS resources or dependencies on DB2 resources, found in either of the following:
  • A single, specified, region
  • All of the regions
If, on the other hand, each monitored region has its own, region-specific, set of dependency data files, each Reporter job always retrieves data for a single region; to retrieve data from multiple regions you must run your job multiple times, against the relevant dependency files for each region in which you are interested.

To request a report from the Reporter, edit and run the CIUJCLRP job.