Integration with CICS Explorer

When the CICS® IA plug-in is installed with your CICS Explorer®, the menu option Dependencies is displayed when you right-click operational resources and definitions that are supported by CICS IA.

If one or more plug-ins are installed in the CICS Explorer framework, menu options that are associated with those plug-ins are available from the CICS Explorer views. You do not need to change to a plug-in perspective to use the properties of the plug-in.

For example, in the following example CICS Explorer perspective, the CICSPlex® Explorer view lists all the CICS regions in the CICSPlex and indicates that three of the six CICS regions in that CICSplex are active. Three of the active CICS regions are flagged with the CICS IA CICS IA region icon icon that indicates that the CICS region is supported by CICS IA. The CICS Explorer Regions view, is populated by the active CICS regions in the selected CSYSPLX01. The CICS IA Regions view, identified by the CICS IA region icon icon, is populated by the CICS region information collected by CICS IA. The CICS region identifiers in the CICS IA view correspond with the CICS region names in parentheses in the CICSplex Explorer view.

Screen capture of the CICS Explorer perspective.

The menu options available for the operational resources depend on the type of resource. The following examples illustrate the different CICS IA Dependencies menu options that are displayed.

Regions tab Dependencies menu options

Regions tab Dependencies menu options, Show Resources, Show Files, Show Maps, Show Temporary Storage, Show Transient Data, Web Services Used, Programs Used, and Transactions Used.

Tasks tab Dependencies menu

Tasks tab Dependencies menu, Used by Programs, Used By Transactions, Show Execution, Uses Resources, Asset details

Transactions tab Dependencies menu

Transactions tab Dependencies menu, Used by Programs, Used By Transactions, Show Command Flow runs, Uses resources, Asset details

File tab Dependencies menu

File tab Dependencies menu, Used By Programs, Used By Transactions

When you work with operational resources and request CICS IA data, CICS IA uses the APPLID for the CICS region in which that operational resource exists. However, when you work with definitions, no APPLID is available for CICS IA to use, so all searches run across all CICS regions. The toolbar in the view where the results of your search are displayed indicates whether the search was run for a specific CICS region, or across all CICS regions.