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.
Overview
The CICS IA plug-in provides
an Eclipse-based infrastructure to identify CICS application resources and their interdependencies,
and to analyze transaction affinities.
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.
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.