Getting Started with the CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer

The CICS® Interdependency Analyzer plug-in for CICS Explorer® provides an Eclipse-based interface to analyze your CICS IA data. It also provides cheat sheets that guide you through the steps required to configure and install CICS IA. It is recommended that you download the CICS IA plug-in and follow the steps in the cheat sheets.

For information about configuring and using the CICS Explorer and the CICS Interdependency Analyzer plug-in, see https://www.ibm.com/cics/explorer. When you install the CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer there is help available on how to use the CICS IA plug-in, Help > Help Contents > CICS IA User Plug-in guide.

This site guides you on how to download the CICS Explorer and the CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer. As part of the download you receive the cicsia_plugin_release_notes.html and the cicts_explorer_release notes.html files. These files guide you on how to install and configure the CICS IA plug-in.

When you install the CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer there are cheat sheets supplied for configuring CICS IA, Help > Cheat Sheets. You can find additional help for using the cheat sheets by navigating to Help > Help Contents > CICS IA User Plug-in guide.

Note: The CICS IA plug-in connects to the CICS IA DB2® database. In order to use the CICS IA plug-in, you need to set up only this connection. You do not need to connect the base CICS Explorer to a CICS CPSM environment or a CICS single region with the CMCI connection.

You can find more information about the CICS Explorer plug-in usage in the IBM® CICS Explorer User Guide.