Controlling CICS IA from the CICS IA plug-in
You can administer and operate the CICS® IA collectors from the CICS IA plug-in for Explorer.
You can stop or start the Dependency, Affinity, and Command Flow collectors from the
CICS IA plug-in. You can also administer the
Command Flow collector options from the CICS IA plug-in. CICS IA uses a web service resource to enable this
connection to the CICS IA plug-in. Web
service resources were introduced in CICS TS V3.1. If you
want to use this feature, then you must install web service resources into the controlling
region.
You can choose if you want to configure the sample jobs that are required to enable this feature by using the customization EXEC, started in full mode. To use the sample jobs, in the configuration EXEC, select YES for CICS IA Control Region. A TCP/IP port number must be associated with the web service. The zFS directory values that are associated with the web service definition default to the zFS directory values used at the SMPE installation time for CICS IA and CICS TS.
For more information, see CICS Explorer plug-in variables and Creating a new collection environment.
For more information about how to configure the CICS IA Explorer plug-in, see the CICS IA plug-in help.
Web service security
The TCPIPSERVICE resource definition contains the AUTHENTICATE(BASIC) parameter. HTTP Basic authentication is used to obtain a user ID and password from the plug-in. Basic authentication requires the SEC system initialization parameter to be set to YES. If SEC is set to NO, then the TCPIPSERVICE resource with BASIC authentication cannot be installed in the region. If you do not want to use this type of authentication, define AUTHENTICATE(NO) in the CIUDEFW sample file before the CIUJCWEB job is run. However, if you do not use this authentication, you can work from the plug-in only as the CICS controlling region default user.