In CICS® IA V3.2,
you can manage data collection not only with the CINT transaction,
but also with the CICS IA Explorer
plug-in.
The CINT transaction enables you to configure CICS IA to manage multiple regions. To do this,
you need to:
- Share the CIUCNTL control file. For details, see Creating VSAM files.
- Define the CONNECTION and SESSION resources between the controlling CICS region and the regions you
want to manage.
In CICS IA V3.2, you can
use the CICS IA Explorer plug-in
to operate the dependency and affinity data collection. You can START,
STOP, PAUSE, CONTINUE, and REFRESH the collection. You can also operate
and administer the Command Flow feature by
userid.
To be able to administer data collection tasks with the Explorer
plug-in, define further resources to the region, from which you want
to manage CICS IA. Since CICS IA uses Atomservices resources
to ensure seamless interaction between the components, your controlling
region must be at CICS TS 4.1
or above.
Note: This requirement is critical for the controlling
region only. For the regions you want to manage previous versions
of CICS TS will suffice.
In the configuration EXEC, you need to configure the selected region
to include the above mentioned resources.
Figure 1. Configuring Explorer
plug-in variablesExplorer Plugin variables:
CICS IA CONTROL REGION . . . . . ___ (YES or NO) 1
URI PATH . . . . . . . . . . . . /CICSIA/IBM/atom/ciuatom/* 2
TCP IP PORT . . . . . . . . . . ______ 3
ATOM CONFIG FILE LOCATION . . . _____________ 4
Note: - Select YES to change the region status to controlling.
- Specify a URI PATH. The default path name is /CICSIA/IBM/atom/ciuatom/*.
- Specify the TCP/IP port number.
- Specify the Atom Configuration file location. The default value
is @pathprefix@/usr/lpp/cicsia/@ciuver@. This
will be concatenated with IBM/atomservices/config/CIUATM01 to
provide the HFS location of the configuration file used by the CICS IA Atomservice. The @pathprefix@ and @ciuver@ are
variables chosen during the SMPE install jobs CIUIHFS0, CIUIHFS1,
and CIUMKDIR.
Once you have run the configuration for the controlling region,
you need to define the configured resources to CICS. For details, see Defining resources to CICS.
Your controlling region should now be ready to enable CICS IA tasks administration form the Explorer
plug-in. For more information on configuring the CICS IA Explorer plug-in, refer to the its built-in
HELP.