CICS® IA comprises
a number of the Command Flow components, which divide into collecting
and reporting parts.
CICS IA contains
these Command Flow components:
Refer to
Figure 1 for
the Collector structure.
- The Command Flow Collector
- The Command Flow Collector collects
all CICS, DB2®, MQ and IMS™ commands
in chronological order and writes them to the CICS Journal log stream.
- The Command Flow database objects
- The Command Flow database objects contain data extracted from
the CICS Journal log stream
created by the Collector. It
is updated periodically to add data from new or infrequently run applications.
See The structure of the Command Flow table objects.
- The CICS IA plug-in
for CICS Explorer®
- The CICS IA
plug-in for CICS Explorer provides
a graphical front end to CICS IA. For
more information, see the Analyzing CICS IA
data using the CICS IA plug-in
for CICS Explorer section
in the IBM® CICS Explorer User Guide.