What's new in the CICS IA V5.1 plug-in

Enhancements to the CICS® IA V5.1 plug-in.

New Function Description
New fields added to the Command flow editor

You can select an application for the User command flow.

New fields added to Query editor
The following new resource types are available in the Query editor:
  • Application name
  • Major application version
  • Micro application version
  • Minor application version
  • Operation
These new resource types are also listed in the "Customize Columns" menu of the "Command Flow" view.
Call delete from the new Application folder

You can delete data associated with a TS application name and version directly from the application folder.

Call the SM Program Editor from the IA Programs view

You can open the Program Editor from the Programs view without the need to change to the SM perspective. The context menu in the Programs view includes a new option so that you can right-click the Program name in this view to open the Program Editor.

Run threadsafe reports in the Explorer

You can run threadsafe reports and see the results in Explorer.

View resources graphically

You can display your program and transactions resources as graphical elements instead of a list of text items.

Enhancements to existing functionality Description
Applications view
The Applications view includes two new folders:
  • IA applications: List of legacy IA Applications used before 5.1.
  • TS Applications: List of Applications defined in CICS TS 5.1 and picked up by IA 5.1 collector.
Programs view

The context menu in the Programs view has new menu options Used by Region and Used by Application

Transactions view

The context menu in the Transactions view has new menu options Used by Region and Used by Application