CICS® Performance
Analyzer for z/OS® (CICS PA) is
a comprehensive performance reporting tool to help you develop, analyze,
tune, and manage your CICS Transaction
Server systems.
CICS PA provides
an ISPF menu-driven dialog to request generation of reports and extracts
from System Monitoring Facility (SMF) files.
Figure 1. CICS Performance
Analyzer overview
The dialog has many features to help you to specify your input
files, filter the data, and tailor the reports and extracts to meet
many different reporting requirements.
CICS PA helps
you analyze the performance of your CICS systems
using the following SMF record types:
- CICS Monitoring Facility
(CMF) performance class, exception class, and transaction resource
class (SMF 110, subtype 1)
- CICS Transaction Server
(CICS TS) statistics (SMF 110,
subtype 2) and CICS Server
statistics (SMF 110, subtypes 3, 4, and 5)
- z/OS System Logger for CICS journaling (SMF 88)
- CICS Transaction Gateway
(CICS TG) statistics (SMF 111)
- DB2® accounting (SMF 101)
- WebSphere® MQ accounting
(SMF 116)
- OMEGAMON® XE
for CICS (SMF
112) containing transaction data for Adabas, CA-Datacom, CA-IDMS,
and Supra database management systems
These data sources provide input for generating reports, storing
in HDBs, or exporting for analysis using CICS Explorer®, spreadsheets or SQL.
The Historical
Database (HDB) facility provides data warehousing of SMF data. It
helps you to manage CICS transaction
performance and CICS statistics
data for long term analysis. HDBs are designed and managed from the
dialog. You can submit batch jobs to report against data in a List
or Summary HDB, and export data to DB2 tables
or CSV files for further analysis.
CICS PA can
be useful to anyone who needs to monitor and manage CICS system and CICS application
performance:
- CICS System Programmers:
- System performance monitoring and tuning
- Improve CICS system resource
usage
- Improve transaction response times
- CICS Application Programmers:
- Analyze CICS application
performance
- Transaction performance monitoring
- DB2 and VSAM database performance
monitoring
- Information Technology Managers:
- Capacity planning
- Service Level Agreements
- Ongoing system management and measurement reports