Controlling the Collector
You can monitor and control the Collector through the CINT transaction. Also you can control the Collector from CICS® Explorer through the CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer.
- Start, pause, continue, and stop the collection of dependency
or affinity data.
If necessary, you can start, stop, pause, or resume the collection of data on multiple regions at once, that is, with a single CINT command. How to do this is described in Controlling the collection of dependency and affinity data.
You can also set timers, one per region, to control the dates and times at which dependency or affinity data is collected. A timer pauses and resumes the Collector automatically at predetermined times. How to set a timer is described in Specifying region-specific options: timers.
- Specify which type of data, dependency or affinity, is to be collected on each region.
- Specify for which programming commands, and for which transactions, data is to be collected. For example, you could specify that only dependency data for transactions with names beginning with “PAY” will be collected; and that, within this subset of transactions, only EXEC CICS file control commands will be monitored.
- Specify, by means of a list of name prefixes, a set of programs for which data is not to be collected. See Specifying region-specific options: General.
- Specify, by means of a list of name prefixes, a set of CICS transactions for which data is not to be collected.
- Set default values for the Collector's region specific options. How to set default values is described in Changing the Collector options.
- Set a region-specific Collector option to the same value on multiple regions with a single CINT command. How to set this option is described in Changing the Collector options.
- Specify, by means of the USER-control record in the CINT control file, individual user's Command Flow options and region configurations.
- Control USER-records (ADD, COPY, DELETE and DETAIL).
For detailed information about controlling the Collector, see Running the Collector.
The options that you specify to control the Collector for a CICS region are preserved in a recoverable VSAM control file. For more information about this file, see The control record VSAM file.