CICS System

CICS® systems define the CICS Transaction Server or CICS Transaction Gateway regions that you wish to report against. They are identified by their CICS Transaction Server generic APPLID or CICS Transaction Gateway APPLID and optionally qualified by the MVS™ Image where they run.

CICS system names can be specified as patterns containing masking characters. For example, if your CICS development regions are called CICSD1, CICSD2, CICSD3, and their SMF records are on the same file, then you can define them once as a system called CICSD*. Then at report run-time, you can request that all CICSD* systems are processed, or any individual system matching the pattern can be requested. For example, CICSD1.

You can define SMF files to CICS systems. These files contain the SMF 110 and SMF 112 records for CICS Transaction Server regions, and the SMF 111 records for CICS Transaction Gateway regions. When this system is requested for reporting, CICS PA builds JCL that includes DD statements for these files.

You can also define CICS systems to Groups. This allows you to connect systems for consolidated cross-system style reporting. See Groups for more information.