What is CICS PA?

CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS® (CICS PA) is a reporting tool that provides information on the performance of your CICS systems and applications, and helps you tune, manage, and plan your CICS systems effectively. CICS PA also provides a historical database facility to help you manage CICS statistics and performance data for your CICS transactions.

CICS PA is not an online monitoring tool. It produces reports and extracts using data normally collected by your system in MVS™ System Management Facilities (SMF) data sets and log streams:

It is designed to complement the CICS-supplied utilities and sample programs such as DFH$MOLS, DFHSTUP, and DFH0STAT.

CICS PA can help:
CICS PA reports all aspects of CICS system activity and resource usage, including:

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