Overview
The CICS® IA plug-in provides an Eclipse-based infrastructure to identify CICS application resources and their interdependencies, and to analyze transaction affinities.
- The Collector.
The Collector monitors all calls to CICS and captures them in DB2® database tables. Each call to CICS is called an interaction. Each interaction consists of items of information such as the region, transaction ID, and the name of the program that issues the CICS call. Details about the CICS call itself, such as the function name and the resource type, are also captured, with additional information such as the transient control block and whether the transaction is associated with a terminal.
- The graphical user interface (GUI) client.
Use the CICS IA plug-in to analyze and explore the collected data about CICS interactions and CICS, Affinity, IMS™, DB2, and MQ resources. The CICS IA plug-in requires the location of the DB2 database in which the Collector has stored data. For details about how to enter this information, see Configuring a CICS IA system connection. After you make a successful connection between CICS IA plug-in and the DB2 collector tables, you can search to find resources and analyze their usage and their dependencies.