These topics provide reference information about the CICS® IA plug-in.
IA Regions view
The IA Regions view displays the data that the collector
found in all regions. You can filter this data to refine the information
displayed.
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.
Show Resources view
The Show Resources view displays resources from a number
of sources, including searches run from the toolbar, from the Queries
view, and from the Regions view.
Resource connections view
Use the Resource connections view to display the connections
between resources.
Resource visualization view
Use the Resource visualization view to display the programs
and transactions as groups.
Affinities view
The Affinities view displays an alphabetic list of the
resources with potential affinities related to the target object. CICS transactions and programs
use many different techniques to pass data from one to another. Some
of these techniques require that the transactions or programs that
exchange data must run in the same CICS region.
This imposes restrictions on the regions to which transactions and
distributed program link (DPL) requests can be dynamically routed.
If transactions or programs exchange data in ways that impose such
restrictions, there is said to be an affinity among them. You can
use the Affinities view to display these affinities.
Queries view
The Queries view displays a list of data that is returned
by queries that have run using data on a database. Queries are displayed
in folders, these folders can contain other folders, and are a way
of organizing queries. The sample queries that are shipped with the
product are displayed in the queries view, and you can also create
and save new queries. Queries are saved to your workspace which is
defined when you install the product. You can modify the workspace
location at any time when running the explorer.
User Command Flow view
The User Command Flow view shows an alphabetic list of
command flow runs that have been run and is sorted by user ID.
Applications view
The Applications view shows a list of all applications
known to CICS IA.
Collection IDs view
The Collection IDs view displays the collection identifiers
that you can select to scope the results returned to the CICS IA plug-in.
Programs view
The Programs view shows an alphabetic list of all programs
known to CICS IA.
Report view
Use the Report view to create summary or detailed reports
of threadsafe issues in HTML format. Use the Report Explorer view
to list previously saved report files.
Scanner view
The Scanner view displays the results of running the IA
Scanners: Load Module Scanner and CSECT Scanner. The results are sorted
by data set name.
Transactions view
The Transactions view shows an alphabetic list of all transactions
known to CICS IA.
Web Services view
The Web Services view displays an alphabetic list of all
web services known to CICS IA,
both inbound and outbound.
Command Flow View
You can find out if whether command flow information is
collected about a transaction from any view where a Transaction resource
is displayed in the CICS IA
plug-in.
Uses View
From any view where a transaction or program is shown in
the CICS IA plug-in,
you can explore resources further to see which resources the transaction
is using and in which regions.
Used By view
You can further explore a resource from any view where
a resource is available. You can view the programs and the transactions
that are using the resource, and the associated regions.
DB2 errors
You might get some error messages that contain DB2® SQL error codes. DB2 SQL error codes are created by interactions
with the DB2 database and are
out of the control of the CICS IA
plug-in.
Enabling hover help for screen readers
The CICS IA plug-in uses
hover help to provide you with extra information; however, this help
might not be readily available when using a screen reader such as
JAWS