Before you can work with CICS® Interdependency
Analyzer (CICS IA) you must
connect to your CICS systems.
You can then analyze the data captured by the Collector.
Configuring a CICS IA system connection
Before you can view any information, you must establish
a connection between the CICS IA plug-in and
the DB2® database where the CICS IA Collector
stores its data. You must enter the information to connect to the DB2 database and associate the connection
with a credential to authenticate that connection.
Configuring a CICS IA Collector connection
Before you can work with collectors, you must have an IA
Collector connection configured. The CICS IA Collector
places details about interactions between CICS programs and resources in a set of DB2 tables.
Selecting additional resource types
The CICS IA plug-in can
download data about DB2, IMS™ or MQ resource types. You can
select what types to include by using the CICS Interdependency Analyzer
pane in the Preferences window.
Rational Asset Analyzer preferences
Use the Rational Asset Analyzer Preferences pane in the
Preferences window to set your Rational® Asset
Analyzer (RAA®) server and port
settings.
Migration from previous versions
The CICS IA plug-in Version
3.2 can connect to an IA Version 3.1 database, but some features are
not supported. Queries can be migrated from Version 3.1 to Version
3.2, and from Version 2.2 to Version 3.1
CICS resources
Resources are displayed in several places in the CICS IA plug-in.
You can locate and view these resources in several ways.
Integration
You can use aspects of the CICS IA
plug-in to interrogate data using the CICS Explorer® perspective and Rational Developer for System
Z views.
Searching
You can search for resources in many ways. You can search
from the toolbar using explicit names or wildcards, or you can create
and use queries defined using a Query Editor.
Using affinities
CICS transactions
and programs use many different techniques to pass data from one to
another. Some of these techniques require that the transactions or
programs exchanging data must run in the same CICS region. This imposes restrictions on the
regions to which transactions and distributed program link (DPL) requests
can be dynamically routed. If transactions or programs exchange data
in ways that impose such restrictions, there is said to be an affinity
among them.
Creating a report of threadsafe issues
You can create summary or detailed reports of threadsafe
issues in HTML format. To create a report, you can use a view that
shows the transaction or program for which you require a report, or
you can use the Report view.
Comparing resources
You can compare the results of previous resource searches.
You can refine the comparison by combining results or excluding them.