The Dependency Reporter consists
of a batch job that converts the dependency data collected by the Collector into
reports that present the data in a readable format.
The files
of dependency data produced by the Collector are
the input to the Dependency Reporter. Depending
on how you configure the Reporter job,
the output might be, for example, a listing of the CICS®, DB2®,
MQ, or IMS™ commands that were
monitored, naming the transactions and programs where they occurred,
the resource being acted upon, and other details.
If the dependency data files are shared by multiple regions, you
can run one Dependency
Reporter job
to produce a report showing dependencies, for example, dependencies
on DB2 resources, found in either
of the following:
- A single, specified, region
- All of the regions
If, however, each monitored region has its own, region-specific,
dependency data files, each Dependency
Reporter job
always retrieves data for a single region; to retrieve data from multiple
regions, you must run your job multiple times, against the relevant
dependency files for each region in which you are interested.