What is CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS?

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
This figure shows the components of CICS PA, the inputs, the outputs, and how they relate to each other.

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:

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:

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