Use the Resource Connections view to display the connections between transactions and programs, or between CICS®, DB2®, IMS™, or MQ resources.
By default, the Resource Connections view displays a visual representation of the connections between program and transaction resources, and shows the connections from left to right. The view is interactive. You can select a program or transaction, and the connections related to that resource are displayed in the Resource Connections view. When you click a resource node or a connection, that element and its siblings are highlighted. If you position the mouse pointer over a connection line, further information about the call is displayed as hover help.
If a program is highlighted with an operation icon ,
this indicates that the program has multiple connections to other
resources. For example, the program might be the initial program of
a transaction, or it might have more than one incoming connection.
The operation icon indicates that if you are connected to a CICS system,
you can modify the resource definition for this program by using the CICS SM editor. Right-click the
program to display the menu, then click Open CICS SM Editor.
To change the resources that are displayed in the view, and the layout of the diagram, you can use the toolbar icons.
To move around the view, use the scroll bars. Alternatively, you can use the Outline view, which provides a view of the complete contents of this view with reduced size resource elements.
To print the resource connections diagram, use the Print icon in the CICS
IA perspective toolbar.
In the following example screen, Regions and Platforms are selected in the resource filter list and the resources are grouped by region and platform.