The CICS® IA plug-in consists of the CICS IA perspective and views.
To open the CICS IA perspective, click CICS
IA icon in the shortcut bar.
The following graphic shows an example of a CICS IA perspective.
A view is a visual component in the workbench. You can use the views to analyze and explore the collected data about CICS interactions and CICS, Affinity, IMS™, DB2®, and MQ resources. For more information about the CICS IA plug-in views, see Reference information.
You are not restricted to default views. You can add, delete, move, and size views in the workbench.
To open a CICS IA plug-in view, click . In the dialog, expand CICS Interdependency Analyzer, select the required view, then click OK.
To restore the CICS IA default perspective, click
.For more information about working with views, see Views in the CICS Explorer® User Guide. This user guide refers to the CICS Explorer User Guide if the operations are common to both. The CICS Explorer User Guide describes, in detail, Eclipse operations used in the CICS SM perspective.