CICS IA requirements

CICS Requirements

CICS IA Version 5.5 captures data for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® at currently supported versions. However, some new features are supported only in later versions of CICS TS for z/OS.

If you want to operate the CICS IA Controller from the CICS IA Explorer plug-in, the CICS IA region that you intend to control requires CICS Transaction Server V4.1 or later.

Each CICS region, on which the CICS IA Collector is to run, must have Language Environment® installed and active.

Db2 requirements

CICS IA requires IBM® Db2® V8.0 for z/OS or later. You will also require the Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS for the version Db2 that you are using.

The CICS IA sample jobs support utilities provided by other vendor with minor changes.

VSAM file support

To control CICS IA Collectors on multiple regions from a single CICS terminal, the VSAM files to which CICS saves dependency data, affinity data, and control information must be shared across all the regions. See The dependency data and affinity data VSAM files and The control record VSAM file. To share these files, you can use either:

1. VSAM record-level sharing (RLS). If you use VSAM RLS, all the regions must be in the same MVS parallel sysplex. A parallel sysplex is a sysplex that uses a coupling facility, which is required to support VSAM RLS. For information about using VSAM RLS in CICS, see the CICS Installation Guide.
2. Function shipping to a file-owning region (FOR). For information about CICS function shipping, see the CICS Intercommunication Guide.

Other Requirements

CICS IA Version 5.5 uses the IBM supplied DFSORT utility in the sample batch jobs used to load Db2 tables.

These jobs can be used with other vendor SORT utilities with minor changes to the sample JCL.