The CICS® IA plug-in
for CICS Explorer® (CICS IA plug-in) is an Eclipse
plug-in that operates on top of the IBM® CICS Explorer to help you
analyze the CICS IA data, including
the interdependency data, affinity data and Command Flow data.
Using the CICS IA
plug-in, you can perform the following tasks:
- For the dependency data you can:
- View resources used by a region, transaction or program.
- View the programs or transactions that use a given resource.
- View resources used by an application.
- Create your own queries to analyze the data.
- View detailed information for programs, transactions, files, TSQueues,
Events, Exits or Regions.
- Compare resources used by a transaction, program or region.
- For the affinity data you can:
- View Affinities by Region.
- View Affinities by Transaction.
- View Affinities by Program.
- For the Command Flow data you can:
- View collections by time or userid.
- View tasks within a Collection.
- View the execution tree for a given task.
You can also use the CICS
Explorer to operate the controller. You can perform the following
tasks:
- For a given CICS region
you can issue a START, STOP, PAUSE, CONTINUE or REFRESH of the dependency
or affinity collection.
- For a given user you can START or STOP the Command Flow feature.
- For more information about the IBM CICS Explorer, see http://www.ibm.com/cics/explorer.