Resource Connections view

Use the Resource Connections view to display the connections between transactions and programs, or between CICS®, DB2®, IMS™, or MQ resources.

To open the Resource Connections view, select a program or transaction in the Resource Visualization view, then do one of the following:

By default, the Resource Connections view displays a visual representation of the connections between program and transaction resources, and shows the connections from left to right. The view is interactive. You can select a program or transaction, and the connections related to that resource are displayed in the Resource Connections view. When you click a resource node or a connection, that element and its siblings are highlighted. If you position the mouse pointer over a connection line, further information about the call is displayed as hover help.

The Resource Connections view

If a program is highlighted with an operation icon operation icon, this indicates that the program has multiple connections to other resources. For example, the program might be the initial program of a transaction, or it might have more than one incoming connection. The operation icon indicates that if you are connected to a CICS system, you can modify the resource definition for this program by using the CICS SM editor. Right-click the program to display the menu, then click Open CICS SM Editor.

To change the resources that are displayed in the view, and the layout of the diagram, you can use the toolbar icons.

To move around the view, use the scroll bars. Alternatively, you can use the Outline view, which provides a view of the complete contents of this view with reduced size resource elements.

To print the resource connections diagram, use the Print icon Print icon in the CICS IA perspective toolbar.

Toolbar

You can use the following icons in the toolbar of the view:
  • Horizontal Orientation icon Horizontal Orientation icon. Change the layout of the diagram from vertical to horizontal.
  • Vertical Orientation icon Vertical Orientation icon. Change the layout of the diagram from horizontal to vertical.
  • Show Filters icon Show Filters icon. Display resources other than programs and transactions. A list of resources is displayed, where you can select the check boxes for the resources you require. For example, you can select regions, platforms, applications, and CICS, DB2, IMS, or MQ resources. Your changes apply immediately to the view, unless you select a resource type that is not available. For example, the platform resource type is available only in a CICS IA Version 5.2 database; if you are connected to a CICS IA Version 5.1 or earlier database, selecting Platforms has no effect.

    In the following example screen, Regions and Platforms are selected in the resource filter list and the resources are grouped by region and platform.

    Resource Connections view with the resource filter list and programs and transactions grouped by region and platform.