Analyzer Programs

Analyzer programs are associated with TCPIPSERVICE definitions. They interpret selected HTTP requests and take over some of the processing, monitoring and audit actions normally performed by a URIMAP.

Each CICS Web support TCPIPSERVICE definition must use an analyzer program, and each TCPIPSERVICE definition can specify a different analyzer program.

The use of an Analyzer program is specified in the Analyzer field of URIMAP definition and can override the URIMAP's Convertor, Transaction, User Id, and Program options when used.

Important:

You can only use analyzer programs if they have been compiled with ASCII or EBCDIC specified as the character set.
Analyzer programs can only be called when CICS is an HTTP server. You cannot use them if CICS is an HTTP client, or processing Web services.

The Default Analyzer

If no URIMAP is defined, or no value is entered in the Analyzer field of a URIMAP definition, Enterprise Server uses DFHWBAAX as the default analyzer program for TCPIPSERVICE definitions that have Protocol set to "HTTP".

DFHWBAAX tests for the presence of a URIMAP definition, and depending on the result performs the following:

If it finds a URIMAP definition, DFHWBAAX automatically accepts the URIMAP definition's Transaction (alias transaction), Converter (converter program), and Program (application program) settings for use in any further processing.
If it does not find a matching URIMAP definition, DFHWBAAX passes control to the Web error application program DFHWBERX to produce an error response. For this to happen you must configure DFHWBERX as the application program to handle the request using the wbra_server_program output parameter.

For more information on DFHWBAAX and how to use TCPIPSERVICE analyzer programs, see IBM's CICS Transaction Server documentation.