The monitoring control table (MCT) is used to tell CICS®:
- The type of resource for which you want to collect transaction
resource monitoring data. Available resource types are Files and Temporary
Storage Queues (see DFHMCT TYPE=INITIAL).
- To enable application naming support, which makes available the
CICS-generated DFHAPPL EMPs to your application programs (see DFHMCT TYPE=INITIAL).
- About any user event monitoring points (EMPs) that you have coded
in your application programs and the data that is to be collected
or manipulated at these points (see DFHMCT TYPE=EMP).
- That you want certain CICS system-defined
performance class data fields to not be recorded by CICS (see DFHMCT TYPE=RECORD).
IMS™ DBCTL users
can collect DBCTL statistics in the CMF performance class records
by including the DFH$MCTD
copy member in the MCT definition.
Full details of the MCT are provided in the CICS Resource Definition Guide. Examples
of MCT coding are included with the programming information in the CICS Customization Guide.