Welcome
Solving problems
This section helps you to isolate and determine the cause of CICS® IA problems.
Contacting IBM® Support
The IBM® Support structure helps you to resolve problems with IBM products and ensure that you can make the best use of your IBM computing systems. Program support is available to all licensed users of IBM licensed programs.
Information data sheet
This data sheet lists the problem determination information you need to have available when you contact IBM® Support Services.

Preface
This information describes the IBM® CICS® Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS®. It explains what the program does and how to set up and run its various components.
What's new in CICS® IA Version 6.3
CICS® IA Version 6.3 maintains broad functionality and provides full support for the new CICS Transaction Server 6.3. Building on previous releases, it includes updates for commands whose threadsafe status has been enhanced in CICS Transaction Server 6.3, enabling more applications to run without switching to QR TCB mode
Overview of the CICS® Interdependency Analyzer
This section gives an overview of the CICS® Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA), and describes its components.
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.
Configuring CICS® IA
This section describes what you need to do before you can use CICS® IA.
Running the Collector
You run the CICS® IA Collector to look for instances of program commands that might cause resource dependencies or transaction affinities.
Updating the Dependency and Affinity database objects
The Dependency database objects contain accumulated data about your applications and the resources that they use. Update the database objects regularly to add new information recorded by the Collector in the VSAM dependency files.
Managing your CICS® IA data
With each new release CICS® IA captures more data. In volatile development environments this data can soon become out of date. If you have out of date data, the CICS IA plug-in might retrieve more data than you need. The presence of unwanted data might impede your analysis and provide confusing results.
The CICS® IA UDB database
CICS® IA provides jobs to unload CICS IA data into CSV files. These files can be used to populate the IBM® supported UDB databases.
Running the Reporter
Running the Program Threadsafe report
The threadsafe report can be run from the CICS IA Explorer plug-in or as a batch job using the sample CIUJTSQ2 that can be found in SCIUSAMP.CICS. The report runs the Db2® stored procedure CIUSPTSR.
Running the Load Module Scanner
The Load Module Scanner scans load modules for instances of program commands that could cause resource dependencies or transaction affinities.
Running the CSECT Scanner
The CICS® IA CSECT Scanner scans load modules for information that can be used to identify the version of each CSECT.
Running the Builder
The CICS® IA Builder runs as a batch job to build affinity-transaction-group definitions suitable for input to the CICS system management product, CICSPlex SM.
Running the sample Db2® query
This section describes how to run the sample CICS® IA batch query job CIUJSAMP.
Solving problems
This section helps you to isolate and determine the cause of CICS® IA problems.
- Overview of CICS® IA problem determination
  This section describes tools and techniques that you can use to find the cause of a problem, and suggests one or more actions for solving it.
- Dealing with errors
  Steps to take to try to solve errors with CICS® IA.
- Contacting IBM® Support
  The IBM® Support structure helps you to resolve problems with IBM products and ensure that you can make the best use of your IBM computing systems. Program support is available to all licensed users of IBM licensed programs.
  - When to contact the Support Center
    Before contacting the Support Center, try to ensure that the problem cannot be resolved without IBM®'s assistance.
  - Working with the Support Center
    When you call the Support Center, your first contact will be with a Support Center operator. The operator records some initial details about your problem, and then places it on a problem queue. You might be transferred directly to a technical support specialist or you might receive a call back from a Support Center representative.
  - Information data sheet
    This data sheet lists the problem determination information you need to have available when you contact IBM® Support Services.
  - Sending your comments to IBM
Details of dependencies and affinities collected
Correlating Load Module Scanner and Dependency Reporter output to source
The structure of the CICS® IA database
Messages and codes
This section describes the messages that the Collector, Query interface, Dependency Reporter, Affinities Reporter, Load Module Scanner, CSECT Scanner, and Builder can issue, and the transaction abend codes that the Collector can produce.
CICS® IA space considerations
CICS® IA security
CICS® IA External Interfaces
The Appendix describes available Stored Procedures and Command Flow user exit.
Collecting dynamic COBOL calls
CICS® IA detects dynamic COBOL calls, which are collected by the Dependency and Command Flow Data collectors.
Accessibility
Accessibility features help a user who has a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use software products successfully
Download PDF
Download the PDF format documentation for CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS 6.3

Information data sheet

This data sheet lists the problem determination information you need to have available when you contact IBM® Support Services.

Table 1. Data sheet of problem determination information for IBM® Support Center
Information for CICS® IA plug-in for CICS Explorer™ problems
CICS® IA plug-in for CICS Explorer® operating system level, including the service pack level if any.
CICS® IA Help About service level.
Frequency of the failure.
CIU_VERSION table information.
Can you recreate the failure?
When did the failure first occur?
Has the failing function ever worked correctly?
Detailed information about the CICS® IA plug-in navigation or screen shots of the navigation.
CICS® IA Db2® Host Connection Values.
CICS® IA plug-in exception log files.
CICS® IA plug-in popup messages.
Information on any recent maintenance that has been applied.
Information for CICS® IA host problems
z/OS® operating system level.
Db2® version and maintenance level.
Service levels for CICS® and CICS® IA.
The complete CICS® region job logs, including CEEMSG and MSGUSR.
Information on any recent PTFs that have been applied.
CICS® region auxiliary trace data sets.
Any dumps or other diagnostic information which were produced.
Frequency of the failure.
Can you recreate the failure?
When did the failure first occur?
Has the failing function ever worked correctly?