CICS PA System Definitions and SMF Data Take-Up

Before you request CICS PA reports and extracts, you must first define the CICS® systems (generic APPLIDs) on which you want to report. Depending on your reporting requirements, you also might need to define: DB2® subsystems; MQ subsystems; MVS™ System Loggers; and CICS systems for CICS Transaction Gateway. Then specify the SMF data sets for these systems (CICS, DB2, MQ, Logger) or the MVS System (Image) where they run, or both.

An easy way to do this is to let CICS PA create your system definitions by using the Take-up facility. This facility extracts the system details directly from the SMF files. For more information, see Personal Take-Up from SMF File.

If you use the Take-up facility with SMF files that contain only OMEGAMON® XE for CICS (SMF 112) records, then the facility defines CICS systems only, because SMF 112 records do not contain information about other types of system. Also, these CICS system definitions will not specify a CICS version (VRM field); again, because the SMF 112 records do not contain this information.

If you use the Take-up facility with SMF files that contain CICS Transaction Gateway statistics (SMF 111) records, then the facility defines CICS systems for the CICS Transaction Gateway APPLIDs. CICS system definitions taken up from SMF 111 records have a blank VRM field value, because this field is for CICS Transaction Server versions, not CICS Transaction Gateway versions. If the Take-up facility finds CICS Transaction Server and CICS Transaction Gateway systems with the same APPLID, it creates a single CICS system definition with a VRM field value according to the first system it finds.

Optionally, you can then define groups of systems for reporting purposes. For example, systems that connect via interregion communication/multiregion operation (IRC/MRO), intersystem communication/advanced program-to-program communication (ISC/APPC), or internet protocol interconnectivity (IPIC).


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