CICS® Performance Analyzer (CICS PA) is a reporting tool that provides information on the performance of your CICS systems and applications, and helps you tune, manage, and plan your CICS systems effectively.
CICS PA also provides a Historical Database facility to help you manage the performance data for your CICS transactions.
CICS PA is not an online monitoring tool - instead, it provides reports and extracts using the data normally collected by your system in MVS™ System Management Facility (SMF) data sets: CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF) performance, exception and transaction resource class records (SMF 110), DB2® accounting records (SMF 101), WebSphere® MQ accounting records (SMF 116), and System Logger records (SMF 88). It is designed to complement the CICS-supplied utilities and sample programs such as DFH$MOLS, DFHSTUP, and DFH0STAT.
CICS PA can help:
CICS PA reports all aspects of CICS system activity and resource usage, including:
For more information on the reports provided, see Using CICS PA to analyze CICS performance.
CICS PA provides both an ISPF dialog and a command interface. You can use either to request your reports and extracts. For more information, see The CICS PA dialog.