IA Operations view

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.

From the IA Operations view, you can:

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.

The command flow collector

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:

The menu for your user ID has options Start Collector, Stop Collector, and Edit user options.

You can also use the icons in the view to control the command flow connector:

The icons at the top of the view are Start Collector, Stop Collector, Pause Collector, Continue Collector, Edit user options and Refresh.

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 IA Operations view.

The command flow editor

You can edit the options for your currently connected user ID. The collector needs to be in the Stopped state. Double-click your user ID to open the Command Flow Editor, or select the Edit user options icon from the IA Operations view.

The user options editor.

In the Command Flow Editor, you can edit the following options for the command flow editor for your user ID:
  • Command Flow Options
    • Command Flow ID: can be up to 16 characters in length
    • Traced Terminal ID: can be up to four characters in length, or you can use an asterisk (*) to match any terminal ID
    • Traced user ID: can be up to eight characters in length
  • Journal
    • Journal Copy Criteria: you can select LAST, USER, or CFID
  • Transaction List
    • Transaction List: can be up to four characters in length
    • You can enter up to five separate transaction IDs
  • Misc
    • Dynamic Call: you can select Y or N
    • User Exit Name: can be up to eight characters in length
  • Region Applid List
    • These APPLIDs specify the regions where the command flow is started.
    • You can enter up to 15 CICS APPLIDs
  • Application
    • Application Filter: can take one of three values:
      • All Applications: the collector collects data for all applications. This option disables the rest of the Application fields.
      • Specific Application: the collector saves data for the specified application only. You can specify an application name and its version.
      • None: the collector ignores the application filter. This option disables the Application fields.
    • Application Name: can be up to 64 characters long. The name cannot start with a space.
    • Major/Minor/Micro versions: used to define the exact version of application specified. The values must be in the range 0000 to 9999.
The text you enter is changed to uppercase characters. The values are not checked for content, they are only checked for the number of characters.

The Application Filter

You can select applications in the IA plug-in as you did on the host system with the CINT and CINC transactions. In the Command Flow Editor, set the Application Filter to Specific Application and click the Application Filter button The Application Filter button opens a dialog box to select your applications..

You can select an application from the list or enter a partial name in the Filter by Application Name field.

You can use the application selection dialog to filter the applications by name and version.

To further refine your selection, you can also enter your requirements in the optional fields Major version, Minor version, and Micro version. The matching applications are listed in the table. Select the appropriate row and click OK.

Collector state

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 each user and region icon. The icon colors have the following meanings:

Multiple live IA Collector connections

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 sections:

Screen capture of IA view with multiple collector connections.