The Alerts view provides details of statistical and performance alerts that have been captured by PA and loaded into DB2®. Using alerts you can manage and view single transactions, for example, on a day to day basis. If you want to view data trends in your system over a specified period of time, you can view them in reports. See Using reports for more information.
Details of the record that triggered the alert are displayed in a new tab in the sheet view.
You can choose which alerts
to display by clicking the view menu and
selecting the types of alerts that you are interested in:
Right-click the alert and select Run using... from the context menu. The Extract from Transaction Classes records dialog displays:
You can use this dialog to view statistic records that caused an alert, and the circumstances that caused the alert. For example, you can change the dates and other parameters in this dialog to get statistics records before an alert occurred, or compare against another statistic.
For example, if there is an alert that is configured to action if the number of threads is 80, when the alert occurred you might want to see what the threads level was 10 minutes before. Another example, if you have two systems that are working in parallel and one causes an alert you might want to see what the corresponding statistic is on the other system (APPLID). You might then decide that you need to balance the systems better as a result
Click
the Date dialog arrow on the
toolbar to display the date context menu.
You can also use the Date-time selection context menu to display records from a wider time period. For example, if you select yesterday, all alerts that occurred in the last 24 hours are displayed, relative to the current day. If you select week, all alerts that occurred in the last seven days exactly are displayed.
You can hide an alert by right-clicking
it and selecting Hide alert. The alert is hidden
from view in the CICS PA perspective
and the local copy is deleted from the cache. The alert is still on
your host database which has a full dataset available (containing
other alerts that you might have hidden). If you want to permanently
delete an alert you must delete in on the host. To view hidden alerts
again click the refresh button to refresh the alerts view.