Opening the CICS PA perspective

The CICS® PA perspective contains multiple views which you can use to analyze your data.

Procedure

  1. Open the CICS Explorer® tool.
  2. Open the CICS PA perspective by clicking the Open Perspective icon The Open perspective icon next to the shortcut bar.
  3. Click Other > CICS PA, then click OK.

    In the following screen capture, the CICS PA perspective is shown with an active database connection. The Sheet view is the primary view and displays the selected records in the database in spreadsheet format. The analysis view shows a CPU time analysis of the records selected in the Sheet view.

    Screen capture of the CICS PA perspective

    The Reports view displays the different types of report you can use to view data extracted from the host database.

    The Properties view provides you with an alternative way to view a single record selected in the Sheet view.

    The Performance summary tree in the Records view displays the structure of the database in a tree format, in date, time, applid, and transaction ID order.

    If your data is in one or more CSV files, they are displayed in projects in the Project Explorer view, which is the tab next to the Records view.

    You can extract data and save it as a CSV file. You can then copy and paste it into a folder in the Project Explorer view and drag the data from the sheet view directly into a spreadsheet.