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December 2012: CICS PA V5.1

CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS®, V5.1 includes the following features and changes:

Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.1
CICS PA supports SMF 110 records created by CICS TS V5.1.
New CICS PA-specific derived fields
These include new transaction rate summary fields (RATEMIN and RATESEC), CPU time fields, and fields relating to CICS LM locking.
Plug-in templates for all supported CICS TS releases
New HDB templates for all supported CICS TS releases are provided for use with the CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer®.
CICS Transaction Gateway Statistics batch reports
  • Activity Summary
  • Usage and Capacity report
Support for CICS Transaction Gateway V8.1 and V9.0
CICS PA supports SMF 111 records generated by CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS V8.1 and V9.0, which are known by CICS PA as CICS TG VRM 810 and 900 respectively.
WebSphere MQ V7.1 Support
CICS PA supports SMF 116 records created by WebSphere MQ V7.1.
Log stream support
Support for SMF log streams throughout CICS PA, including Report Sets SMF input, Transaction Profiling, Shared System Definitions, HDB Load, and Statistics online reporting.
Facility for removing data loaded to CICS PA DB2 tables
The HDB Housekeeping function can now delete expired DB2 data. The HDB definition allows the specification of separate retention periods for DB2 data and HDB container data sets.
CICS Statistics online reporting - filtering of SMF files
For SMF files defined in Personal Systems and Shared Systems, only the SMF files that meet the APPLID and Image filter criteria are selected. The remaining filter criteria are applied to limit the statistics intervals.

Filter criteria are now automatically applied to option 6.4 Process SMF File.

New sample report forms
These can be tailored to help in areas such as Transaction CPU analysis, CICS Lock Delay analysis, MAXTASKS analysis, Storage analysis, CICS TCB Usage and Delays, and URIMAP analysis.
ISPF dialog enhancements
  • Ability to merge personal and shared system definitions. This allows JCL generation to combine the selected files from both system types without the need to duplicate definitions.
  • New option 5 File Selection on the Profile Options Menu allows you to specify preferences for working with personal and shared system definitions and log streams.
  • HDB default collection settings for statistics reports.
  • Ability to initialize a new Object List or Resource List using a sample list.
  • HDB Register renamed to CICS PA Repository.

CICS PA V5.1 includes all new features that were introduced in CICS PA V3.2 through service updates. For details, see Previous changes.


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