CICS® PA produces a wide range of reports and extracts
on the performance of CICS® Transaction
Server (CICS TS) that help
you to tune and manage performance, as well as plan capacity for future
use. You can filter which types of reports are displayed in the Reports
view.
You can use the following filters to display reports:
- Report category
- Statistics input column
- Report type
- To filter reports, click the View Menu in the Reports tab:

Report category filter
You can use the Report
category filter to define which category of report is displayed. The
Report category filter correlates to any choices made in the Table
selection dialog. For example, if you only want to use the performance
summary table, select the transaction performance heading. If you
want to extract statistics tables for particular categories such as
Transactions and Programs related statistics, select these two categories.

Statistics input column filter
You can use the Statistics input column filter to define
which columns in a table are displayed. Each report uses a number
of specific input fields to execute, and these fields relate to individual
data columns within a table linking values from table to table. For
example, a table which contains a program name can link to another
table which also has information about a program name and if those
programs are the same we have a link. Some of the column resources
described might be irrelevant in a specific installation so the individual
columns can be excluded as report parameters. Consequently, reports
based upon these are filtered out of the Reports view.

Report type filter
You can use the Report type filter to define which type of
reports are displayed. There are four types of report:
- Ranging reports display data in a bar chart.
- Stat table link reports link one table
of data with another.
- Timeline reports display how a record has
changed over time.
- Detail reports display data in a pie chart.
