The CICS PA dialog
provides comprehensive reporting for the following types of statistics:
- CICS® statistics and server
statistics in SMF 110 records with the following subtypes:
- 2
- CICS Statistics
- 3
- Shared Temporary Storage Server Statistics
- 4
- Coupling Facility Data Table Server Statistics
- 5
- Named Counter Sequence Number Server Statistics
- CICS Transaction
Gateway statistics in SMF 111 records
Short-term in-depth analysis or long-term trend analysis for your CICS statistics is available via
the CICS PA Historical Database
(HDB) and Statistics Reporting facilities.
The CICS PA statistics reporting
complements the CICS utilities
DFH0STAT and DFHSTUP. CICS PA
presents CICS statistics in
a similar way to DFH0STAT, the CICS sample
statistics program. It does not accumulate and report statistics intervals
like DFHSTUP.
All statistics reporting is available from the dialog. The procedure
is:
- Specify an SMF File or HDB. A list of CICS statistics intervals for all systems is
displayed.
- Select the interval. A menu of statistics categories and
reports is displayed.
- Select the report. The statistics report is displayed.
There are two types of reports: label reports or tabular reports:
- In label-based reports, fields are reported vertically. This is
used when there is only one record for the report, typically an overview
report.
- In tabular reports, fields are reported horizontally. This format
is displayed when there can be multiple records in the report, typically
for CICS resources.
- Sort on any column in the report, ascending or descending, using
point-and-shoot column heading underlines.
- Hyperlink to related reports using point-and-shoot field values.
- Press Help (F1) to display descriptions of all fields in the report,
together with their CICS field
name and DB2® column name.
- Press Form (F6) to edit the Report Form which controls the fields
that are displayed in the report.
For more information on understanding and interpreting
the CICS statistics data in
the reports, see "Using CICS statistics" in
the CICS Transaction
Server for z/OS® Performance
Guide. For more information on understanding and interpreting
the CICS Transaction Gateway
statistics data in the reports, see "Monitoring and Statistics" in CICS Transaction Gateway: z/OS Administration.
In addition to reporting statistics using the dialog,
you can also process statistics in Statistics Alert batch reports and extract statistics to delimited text files.
For details, see Statistics alert reporting and Statistics extract.