August 2009: updates to V3.1

Contains updates for fixes and new features introduced by APAR PK90007:

New Distributed Program Link (DPL) Usage Summary and List reports
CICS TS V4.1 introduces new transaction resource class data fields for distributed program links (DPLs). CICS PA provides new DPL Usage Summary and List reports for these fields. For details, see Transaction Resource Usage reports.
Transaction Resource Usage List report: now includes originating transactions
If the APPLID or the task number of a transaction, or both, do not match its originating transaction, then the Task Identification section of the Transaction Resource Usage List report contains a second line that describes the originating transaction. For details, see the Report Reference.
Record Selection extract: support for identity class data
CICS TS V4.1 introduces a new monitoring identity class data record (SMF 110 subtype 1, class 6). You can now use CICS PA to extract these records from an SMF file, optionally compress them, and then save them to another file for future processing. For details, see Record Selection extract.
Cross-System Work Extended report: support for unit-of-work post-processing Performance Selection Criteria
The LISTX operand of the CICSPA batch command now supports the SELUOW suboperand. This means that you can now select the units of work that you want to include in a Cross-System Work Extended report.

Previously, if you used the CICS PA ISPF dialog to request a Cross-System Work Extended report (by specifying a Cross-System Work report with a Report Form), then CICS PA ignored any Performance Selection Criteria unit-of-work post-processing that you might have specified. Similarly, if you wrote your own batch job to use the CICSPA LISTX operand to produce a Cross-System Work Extended report, CICS PA ignored the SELUOW suboperand.

RECCOUNT field: now available in Performance Selection Criteria, and as a sort field for LISTX
You can now use the field RECCOUNT (CICS field ID: PERRECNT DFHCICS A131) in Performance Selection Criteria. You can also now use RECCOUNT as a sort field in the List Extended report.
Documentation update: suppressing default fields in Performance Summary reports and extracts
Customizing or suppressing default fields clarifies why, in some situations, a Performance Summary report or extract contains fields that you have not specified in the FIELDS operand.
Documentation update: how CICS PA calculates peak percentiles
The description of the item nn in SUMMARY(FIELDS clarifies how CICS PA calculates peak percentiles, and why these values are accurate only if your data is normally distributed.

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