Adding a scope to an analysis specification

Associating an analysis specification with a scope causes the specification to be automatically installed when a CICS® system associated with the scope is started. Any definitions associated with the specification through analysis groups are also automatically installed.

To add a scope to an analysis specification:
  • From the main menu, click Administration views > RTA system availability monitoring > Specifications.
  • From the Specifications tabular view, click the Record check box beside the specification and click Associate with CICS system... button. The Associate with CICS system view is displayed.
  • Provide the following information:
    Scope name
    Enter the specific or generic name of an existing CICS system or CICS system group that is not associated with any other analysis specification. If you specify a generic value, a list of valid CICS systems and CICS system groups is displayed.

    A CICS system or CICS system group can be associated with only one analysis specification at a time. A specification, however, can be associated with any number of CICS systems and CICS system groups.

    Option
    (Required only when the scope is a CICS system group.) Indicate how the CICS systems comprising the CICS system group are to handle analysis specifications. Specify:
    FORCE
    All CICS systems in the CICS system group are to use the analysis specification. (The analysis specification attribute for each CICS system changes to INHERIT, indicating that the CICS system acquired the specification from a CICS system group.)
    NULL
    Those CICS systems within the CICS system group that are not associated with an analysis specification are to use this specification. (The analysis specification attribute for those CICS systems changes to INHERIT.)
    NONE
    Only the CICS system group is to be associated with the analysis specification. The CICS systems in the CICS system group are not affected. That is, if there is not association between a CICS system and an analysis specification, none is established; if there is an association, either explicitly established or inherited from another CICS system group, it is unchanged.

    When the CICS system group includes other CICS system groups, all of the CICS systems, including those in the subordinate CICS system groups, are affected by the value specified in this field.

  • Click Yes to add the scope to the analysis specification. Otherwise, click No to abandon the process.
However, if you associate the analysis specification with a CICS system that is already active, the new specification is not immediately available. To reset real-time analysis, you must display the MASs known to CICSplex tabular view and do one of the following:
  • If real-time analysis is not already active (as indicated by NO in the RTA Active field):
    • Click the record check box beside the MAS entry and click the Update... button.
    • On the MASs known to CICSplex detailed view, change the RTA Active field to YES.
    • Click Yes to turn real-time analysis on.
  • If real-time analysis is active (as indicated by YES or SAM in the RTA Active field),
    • Click the record check box beside the MAS entry and click the Update... button.
    • On the MASs known to CICSplex detailed view, change the RTA Active field to NO.
    • Click Yes to turn real-time analysis off. The MASs known to CICSplex tabular view is displayed.
    • Click the record check box beside the MAS entry and click the Update... button.
    • On the MASs known to CICSplex detailed view, change the RTA Active field to YES.
    • Click Yes to turn real-time analysis on.
Real-time analysis becomes active using the new analysis specification.

To remove the scope association, see topicpage Removing scope-to-analysis specification associations.