Example: viewing relationship of a routing rule in the Workload Map view

This example shows how to discover whether the workload definitions (known as non-default routing rules in CICS Explorer®) for a workload specification (WFDEMO) are used in any other workload specifications by using the Workload Map view.

The workload is active in this example, so you can just right-click the workload in the CICSplex Explorer view and select Open Workload Specification to open the Workload Specification editor. If it's an inactive workload, you can open the workload specification by double-clicking the workload in the CICSplex Explorer view.
Figure 1. Opening the WFDEMO Workload Specification in the Workload Specification editor
Open Workload Specification editor
From here, you can see an overview of this workload specification. Now you need to take a deeper look at the routing rules. Right-click the second rule (CICS 5.5+) and select Show in Workload Map. This brings up the Map view at the bottom of the window, and focuses it on the CICS 5.5+ routing rule.
Figure 2. Opening the Workload Map view, focused on a Routing Rule
Open Workload Map view

The Map view shows all the relationships of the routing rule. For a routing rule, that includes:

  • the transaction group that the routing rule uses.
  • the workload groups that the routing rule is in.
By expanding the tree, you can see further relationships. Now you can look for other workload specifications that use this routing rule:
Figure 3. Expand the Map View to show the Workload Specifications used by the ‘CICS® TS 5.5+’ Routing Rule
Expand the Map view

Aha! Another workload specification uses this routing rule. Workload specification (EXPWRK1) uses it via workload group Group 63.

If you want to use separate routing rules for these two workload specifications, you might want to create a new workload group to contain the second routing rule. But are there other routing rules contained by workload group Group 63, that you need to decide whether to separate? To find out, focus the Map view on workload group Group 63 by right-clicking it and selecting Show in Workload Map.

This action puts the workload group to the top of the tree, and shows its relationships. For a workload group, that includes:

  • the workload specifications that use the workload group.
  • the routing rules that the workload group contains.
Figure 4. Focus the map view on workload group ‘Group 63’ to see all contained routing rules
Refocus on Workload Group

By expanding the Rules section of the tree, you can see that this workload group is only used by one routing rule. Now you can separate the routing rules for the two workload specifications with more confidence.