From any view where a transaction or program is shown in the CICS® IA plug-in, you can explore resources further to see which resources the transaction is using and in which regions.
To show the regions in which the program or transaction resource is being used, right-click the resource, then click Uses Resources. You can specify whether to analyze use for a specific region, or for all regions.
The information about the selected resource and region populates the Uses view.
When you select Uses Resources, all the resources that are used by this program are displayed, and also all the programs that were loaded from it. The tree of regions shows the resources that were in use by the originating program, and also by the others. When you click the resource, the table displays what programs are using it, and the originating program might not be in this list.
The program or transaction uses are shown in the Resources used pane, organized into folders by type.
You can use the Group by Verb icon in
the toolbar of the view to sort the information in the Resources Used
pane.
You can sort the results by resource (by default), so each resource node contains all the verbs that were executed against it:
The run hierarchy for the current program or transaction starts is shown in the pane.
When you select a resource, the By Resource pane is populated with information about the programs and transactions that use the resource.
When a resource is selected, you can select the points in the run
hierarchy where the resource is used, using the Get next
item and Get
previous item
icons.
When you select a program in the Resources Used pane, the hierarchy shows the first resource in the tree that uses the program.
If you navigate down the tree by using the Get next item icon, you reach the next resource that uses the same program.
You can use the Uses Resources information to create a capture specification to use with event processing. This option is available only for resources and API calls that match valid event processing resources.
To use this option, you must have a CICS Bundle project for the event set up and available for use first. For more information, see Creating a CICS bundle project in the CICS Explorer User Guide.
Events associated with EXEC CICS commands are displayed as child nodes of the command in the view. These child nodes are the events that are triggered against a command. The program used by this event is displayed in the Uses view.