Use Personal System Definitions to define your CICS® (and other related) systems
and their SMF files.
Before you can run reports using Personal System Definitions, you
must first define the CICS and
related systems that you want to report against. You can fast-track
this process by using Take-up. Simply specify an SMF file that
contains records from the systems that you want to report against,
and CICS PA will
create system definitions for you based on the records in that file.
To walk through an example of how to do this, see Example: Working with Personal Systems.
CICS PA uses
your System Definitions when you:
- Run (submit) your report requests.
At Report Set run time, CICS PA automatically
generates JCL that includes:
- Report requests for the CICS (and
other related) systems that you select
- DD statements for the required SMF files
- Create a new Report Form.
The version of your CICS system determines which CMF fields are
available for reporting and your MCT specification allows you to incorporate
user fields into your reports.
- Create Cross-System Work Extract data sets.
Your MCT specification
allows you to incorporate user fields into your extracts.
System Definitions is a menu driven facility that allows you to:
- Define your CICS and associated DB2®, MQ and
Logger Systems and define the Images (MVS™ systems) where they run
- Maintain the SMF files that contain data for these systems
- Define Groups that enable you to connect systems for consolidated
reporting
- Use Take-up to populate your System Definitions from an
SMF file
To access this facility, select option 1 Systems from
the Primary Option Menu, and then select option 1 Personal Systems from
the Systems menu.
When first invoked, the System Definitions
Menu is displayed as shown in
Figure 1.
You can choose to bypass this menu in the future.