CICS® Performance
Analyzer for z/OS® V3.1
includes the following features and changes:
- Statistics alert reporting
- Statistics alert reporting enables you to define conditions, in
terms of CICS Transaction Server statistics or CICS Transaction Gateway
statistics field values, that interest you. You can then use those
conditions to report on statistics stored in SMF files or historical
databases. For details, see Statistics alert reporting.
- Support for CICS Transaction Server V4.1
- All CICS PA reports,
HDB, and the ISPF dialog support CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
(CICS TS) V4.1, which is known by CICS PA as CICS
Version 660.
- Support for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.2
- CICS PA support
for CICS Transaction Gateway statistics (SMF type 111 records) has
been enhanced to support CICS Transaction Gateway V7.2.
- Dropping support for CICS TS V1.3 and V2.1
- CICS PA has
dropped support for SMF records created by CICS TS V1.3 and V2.1. CICS PA V3.1
supports CICS TS V2.2 and later.
- Documentation for the CICS PA plug-in
for the CICS Explorer
- The CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer provides
step-by-step instructions on setting up CICS PA to work
with the CICS Explorer.
- CICS PA plug-in
sample report forms and DB2 view definition
- To create comma-separated value (CSV) files for use with the CICS PA plug-in
for the CICS Explorer, use the sample summary report form EXPLORE3
(for CICS TS V3) or EXPLORE4 (for CICS TS V4). (EXPLORE3 was already
included in CICS PA V2.1
via the PTF for APAR PK71846.)
To create a DB2 view for use with
the CICS PA plug-in,
use member CPAXPLRV of the CICS PA sample
library (SCPASAMP).
For details, see The CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer.
- Repository data set name on Control Data Sets panel
- In addition to the other panels where you can specify this data
set name, you can now specify the Repository data set name on the CICS PA Control
Data Sets panel (CICS PA dialog
option 0.3).
- z/OS V1.10 users: apply fix for DFSORT APAR
PK80962
- Without this fix, DFSORT can produce system abend SA78-10 in CICS PA.
- Terminology: "shared object lists" now "resource lists"
- Shared object lists, previously also known as "HDB object lists",
are now known as resource lists. Object lists, sometimes
previously also known as "personal object lists", remain as object
lists. For a comparison of these types of list,
see Object Lists versus Resource Lists.