Accounting in a CICS DB2 environment: Overview

Accounting in a CICS® DB2® environment can be used to:

Normally the units of consumption are the processor, I/O, main storage, and so on, in some weighted proportion. A typical CICS transaction that accesses DB2, consumes resources in the operating system, the CICS system, the application code, and the DB2 address spaces. Each of these components can produce data, which can be used as input to the accounting process. You can combine the output from the different sources to create a complete picture of resource usage for a transaction.

A normal requirement of an accounting procedure is that the results calculated are repeatable, which means that the cost of a transaction accessing a set of data should be the same whenever the transaction is executed. In most cases, this means that the input data to the accounting process should also be repeatable.

When planning the accounting strategy for your CICS DB2 environment, you need to:

If you have decided to use processor usage as the basis for your accounting, Accounting for processor usage in a CICS DB2 environment has more information on the different classes of processor time that are reported in the DB2 accounting records, and on how to calculate the total processor time used by a transaction.

Related concepts
Accounting and monitoring in a CICS DB2 environment
CICS-supplied accounting and monitoring information
CICS-supplied accounting and monitoring information
Monitoring a CICS DB2 environment: Overview
DB2 accounting reports
Accounting for processor usage in a CICS DB2 environment
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