Book description
IBM® Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Explorer is the new face of CICS Integration point for CICS tooling with rich CICS views, data, and methods.
Are you looking for new ways to accelerate the transfer of knowledge, skills, and best practices to the next generation of technical staff and experts? Do you need to maintain productivity and protect service-levels? CICS Explorer™ and System z® lead the way to platform simplification.
IBM CICS Explorer has a common, intuitive, Eclipse-based environment for architects, developers, administrators, system programmers, and operators. The task-oriented views provide integrated access to a broad range of data and control capabilities, and it also has powerful, context-sensitive resource editors. Integration point for CICS TS, CICS Tools, CICS TG, PD Tools, and Rational® Tools are extensible by independent software vendors (ISV), system integrators (SI), and customers who use our Software Development Kit.
In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we focus on the new CICS Explorer. The first part of the book is an overview of the CICS Explorer along with all of the CICS Tools’ plug-ins. In the second part of the book, we focus on several scenarios in which you can use the CICS Explorer with the CICS Tools plug-ins to resolve various problems.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
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Part 1 CICS Explorer Introductions
- Chapter 1. CICS Explorer introduction
- Chapter 2. Getting started with CICS Explorer
- Chapter 3. Implementing IBM CICS Explorer
- Chapter 4. CICS Explorer base familiarization
- Chapter 5. CICS Explorer navigation walkthrough
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Chapter 6. CICS Explorer IA plug-in familiarization
- 6.1 CICS IA introduction
- 6.2 What CICS IA can do for you
- 6.3 Description of CICS IA
- 6.4 CICS IA plug-in overview
- 6.5 Toolbar searches and queries
- 6.6 Programs and Transactions windows
- 6.7 Regions window
- 6.8 Properties window
- 6.9 Supplied queries with CICS IA plug-in
- 6.10 Creating your own queries in the CICS IA plug-in
- 6.11 Analyzing query and search results
- 6.12 Comparing query and search results
- Chapter 7. CICS Explorer CM plug-in familiarization
- Chapter 8. CICS Explorer PA plug-in familiarization
- Chapter 9. CICS Explorer TG plug-in familiarization
- Chapter 10. CICS Explorer Tivoli OMEGAMON XE plug-in familiarization
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Chapter 11. CICS Deployment Assistant
- 11.1 Introduction to CICS Deployment Assistant
- 11.2 The prerequisites for CICS DA
- 11.3 Installing the CICS DA components
- 11.4 Creating a new CICS DA project
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11.5 Discovering your CICS assets
- 11.5.1 Discovering CICS regions
- 11.5.2 Checking the CICS topology
- 11.5.3 Investigating CICS initialization options
- 11.5.4 Viewing CICS-related spool files
- 11.5.5 Working with CICS-related data sets and JCL
- 11.5.6 Starting and stopping CICS regions
- 11.5.7 Cloning an existing CICS region
- 11.5.8 Adding a CICS to an existing CICSPlex
- Chapter 12. WebSphere MQ plug-in
- Chapter 13. CICS Explorer troubleshooting
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Part 2 Scenarios
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Chapter 14. CICS Explorer - MQ application migration
- 14.1 Identifying MQ Applications
- 14.2 Obtaining more information about the MAIL transaction
- 14.3 Locating the MQ Application in CICS CM
- 14.4 Looking at performance data for the MAIL transaction
- 14.5 Can we make the MAIL transaction threadsafe
- 14.6 Using CICS PA to analyze the (threadsafe) MAIL application
- Chapter 15. CICS Explorer clean up scenario
- Chapter 16. CICS Explorer performance scenario
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Chapter 17. CICSPlex SM enablement using the CICS Explorer
- 17.1 Overview of transaction affinities
- 17.2 Running CICS Interdependency Analyzer for affinities
- 17.3 Loading the DB2 database with the collected affinity data
- 17.4 Using the CICS IA plug-in to identify affinities
- 17.5 Workload management considerations
- 17.6 Creating the definitions for workload management
- 17.7 Migrating the definitions using CICS Configuration Manager
- Chapter 18. CICS Explorer resource manipulation scenarios
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Chapter 14. CICS Explorer - MQ application migration
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM CICS Explorer
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2010
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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