Transactions view

The Transactions view shows an alphabetic list of all transactions known to CICS® IA.

The list of transactions includes the transactions in which programs are running and transactions that are the results of interactions; that is, they are CICS resources of type TRANSID.

Screen capture of the Transactions view listing all transactions known.

You can filter the transactions in the list using the text field under the Transactions tab. You can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard, as shown in the following screen capture. The value *P* finds all transactions with a P in the name, P2* finds all transactions starting with P2, and P*2 finds transactions beginning with P and ending with 2.

The following screen capture shows a list of transactions that is restricted to display only transactions that begin with P and end in 2, by entering P*2 in the text field.

Screen capture of the transaction view that shows the results of the search using P*2. The results are PA2 and PS2.

Press Enter to search.

Information about a selected transaction is displayed in the Properties view.

To analyze a transaction across all regions or for a specific region, right-click the transaction name and select one of the options from the menu. You can see the resources the transaction uses, and where it is used.

Screen capture of the menu displayed when you right-click a transaction. The options are Show Tasks, Used By Programs, Used By Transactions, Show Affinities By Type, Show Command Flow runs, Uses Resources, Show View and, Asset details

Properties for a program or transaction are divided by collection ID, for example a transaction in a collection. If you do not set a search scope, all entries are displayed in the Properties view. When you set a collection ID as a search scope, the properties display only this collection ID If there is no entry for this collection ID in the properties table, no data is displayed.

Screen capture of the Programs view with a search value of DSW*2

To run the search on the values entered in the text fields so that you can view the list of programs, press Enter.

Right-click the program name that you want to analyze to see the resources it uses and where it is used, either across all regions or for a specific region.

Screen capture of the Transactions view with Used By Applications.

Properties for a transaction are divided by collection ID, for example a transaction in a collection. If you do not set a search scope, all entries are displayed in the properties view. When you set a collection ID as a search scope, the properties display only this collection ID. If there is no entry for this collection ID in the properties table, no data is displayed.

When you click one of the Used by ... menu items, you can select more options from a sub menu. Click All regions to start the search for all regions immediately or click Specific Region to open a dialog where you can select a specific CICS region. For example, if you click Used by Applications > All regions, the result of the search is displayed on the Show Resources view. If you click Used by Regions the results are also displayed in the Show resources view.

The Used by Applications commands are only available in CICS IA V5.1. If you are connected to an older database, these context menu items are disabled in the CICS IA persepctive. Outside the IA perspective, these commands are enabled, but attempts to fetch application data from an older database results in warning message:

Warning message displayed when attempting to use the Used By Applications or Used By Regions options while connected to a database release earlier than V5.1