The CICS® TG Explorer
view displays the CICS Transaction
Gateways that are being used, and the CICS server
connections associated with the CICS Transaction
Gateway.
A connected Gateway daemon is indicated by the
Gateway
connected icon

and information
about that Gateway daemon and the associated CICS connections are available in the Gateway
daemons and CICS connections views. If the Gateway daemon is connected
there is also a count of the number of CICS connections
that are active and potentially active for that Gateway. For example,
(2/3) means that two CICS connections
are active out of a possible three CICS connections.
An active CICS connection
is indicated by the
CICS connection active icon

and a disconnected CICS connection is indicated by
the
CICS disconnected icon

. However, CICS connections that use the EXCI protocol
are not predefined and are not included in the potentially active
number until they are active. To test a CICS connection,
right-click the CICS connection
name and click
Test CICS connection, the results
are displayed in the Console view.
The Gateways are grouped logically in the CICS TG Explorer view under the APPLID qualifier,
in this example CTG72L1Q. The CICS server
connections are displayed under the parent Gateway daemon.
To test the Gateway or CICS connections
right-click the Gateway or connection name and click
Test
Gateway connection, or
Test CICS connection.
The results are displayed in the Console view.
When you select a
Gateway or CICS connection
the Gateway daemons and CICS connections
views are automatically populated.
- When you select a Gateway qualifier, all the Gateways and CICS
connections associated with that Gateway qualifier are displayed in
the Gateway daemons and CICS connections views.
- If you select a Gateway, all the CICS connections
associated with that Gateway are displayed in the CICS Connections view.
- If you select a CICS connection,
only information about that connection is displayed in the CICS connections view.
You can select multiple Gateways or CICS connections if you hold down the Ctrl key
.
You can refresh the status of all Gateways, and single Gateway
or multiple Gateways of your choice. To refresh the status of all
Gateways click the Refresh status for all connections icon
in the toolbar. Each
active Gateway is refreshed in turn and inactive Gateways are ignored.
To refresh a single Gateway right-click that Gateway and click Refresh
status. To refresh multiple Gateways of your choice hold
down the Ctrl key and select the Gateways that you want to refresh,
right-click and click Refresh status. The Connecting
message informs you of the progress of the refresh.
For further
information about the CICS Transaction
Gateway, see the CICS Transaction
Gateway for z/OS® Version 7
Release 2 information center.