The IBM® CICS® Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA®) is a runtime tool for use with IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®. CICS IA allows both system programmers and application developers to get an understanding of the relationships and dependencies of your CICS applications and the environment on which they run. By analyzing data collected by CICS IA, you can make changes to your environment in a safe and controlled but timely manner to address changing demands on your business applications.

In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we first provide a detailed overview of what CICS IA is and what business issues it addresses before we review how to configure CICS IA to collect the data that you require with the minimum provenance impact. We then show how you can analyze this data to assist with day-to-day application changes and major projects such as application onboarding.

Chapter 1. IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer overview

Chapter 2. Preferred practices

Chapter 3. Using CICS IA daily

Chapter 4. Using CICS IA data for affinity analysis

Chapter 5. Using CICS IA data for threadsafe analysis

Chapter 6. Application onboarding

Chapter 7. Modernization with CICS Events

Chapter 8. Command Flow feature

Appendix A. IBM Rational Asset Analyzer

Appendix B. Task collection frequency: Performance results