Customizing your profile settings

You can bypass this step as the default profile settings are adequate to get started. However, you might choose to customize the dialog to the way you like it so that you can work more efficiently.

You can use the standard ISPF commands SETTINGS, CUAATTR, and PFSHOW. It is recommended that you select the ISPF setting Tab to point-and-shoot fields, set point-and-shoot fields to a differentiating color, and, until you are familiar with using the CICS PA dialog, show function key settings.

To review your CICS PA profile settings, select CICS PA Primary Menu option 0 CICS PA Profile. Note that if you bypass this step and do not complete the profile settings yourself, then CICS PA will use default settings and allocate new data sets on your behalf when it needs them to save your report requests.
  1. CICS PA Settings. This allows some customization of the CICS PA dialog and JCL used for generating reports and extracts.
  2. Reporting Allocation Settings. Specify unit and space parameters for sort, work, or extract data sets that CICS PA might need to create during batch report processing.
  3. CICS PA Control Data Sets. Specify the names of the partitioned data sets used to maintain Report Sets, Report Forms, and Object Lists. If the specified data sets do not exist, CICS PA will dynamically allocate them when required using the default allocation settings LRECL=80, BLKSIZE=6160, and SPACE=(CYL,(1,1,50)).

    Also specify the name of the Repository, a VSAM KSDS used to maintain shared system definitions, historical database (HDB) definitions, resource definitions (including application groups and performance alert definitions), and details used for transaction profiling. If the specified repository does not exist, CICS PA will prompt you to create it when required.

  4. DB2® Settings. If you plan to export HDB data to DB2 tables, specify your DB2 settings.
  5. File Selection. Specify which system definitions (personal or shared) to use at run time and options for using log streams across CICS PA.

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