The IA Operations view shows a list of collectors that are defined for an IA Collector connection. You must have at least one IA Collector connection configured to work with collectors. Contact your system administrator for details of the collector connections that you want to use.
You can perform the following actions in the IA Operations view:
When you select a region or a user, information about the selected collector is displayed in the Properties view. If you are connected to a CICS® IA 3.2 database the properties for the resource display COLLECTION_ID and ARCHIVE_DATE fields. If you are connected to a CICS IA 3.1. database, these fields are not displayed.
Properties for a program or transaction are divided by collection ID, for example a transaction in a collection. If you do not set a search scope, all entries are displayed in the properties view. When you set a collection ID as a search scope, the properties display this collection ID only. If there is no entry for this collection ID in the properties table, no data is displayed.
When you are connected to an IA collector, the IA Operations view is updated to show a list of all users currently connected to that collector. Your own user ID is also shown in this list. You are able to start or stop the Command Flow Connector for your own user ID. You can start or stop the Command Flow Connector by right-clicking your user ID and clicking Start Collector or Stop Collector, or you can use the icons at the top of the view.
If the command flow collector for your user ID is not currently running, you can edit the options for your currently connected user ID. Double-click your user ID to open the Command Flow Editor, or select the Edit user options icon from the top of the IA Operations view.
In the IA Operations view, you can view the collector state on the listed users and regions. The collector state is displayed through the use of colored icons on the lower left corner of each user and region icon. The icon colors have the following meanings:
Multiple live IA Collector connections can be maintained simultaneously so that you can work with connections on multiple regions without having to change connections. The live collector connections are displayed in a navigation tree, in which each root node represents a separate collector connection. There is a root node for each collector connection defined in the collector connection preferences. For more information about collector connections, see Configuring a CICS IA Collector connection.
Each connection root node contains two branches: