When you use the CICS® PA
plug-in, you can analyze CMF performance data that has been extracted
and formatted as a CSV file using CICS Performance
Analyzer for z/OS®. You must
not edit or change the CSV data in any way otherwise errors are likely
to occur. You can view data that you have extracted in the past, however,
if you want to see new data from version 3.2 you must extract it from
the PA host database.
About this task
The first time you click a CSV file in the Project Explorer
view, the
CICS PA plug-in performs
an analysis of the data. The analysis might take a few seconds to
complete. When the analysis is complete, a
plus icon (an arrow
on Linux) displays next to
the file. Clicking the icon, and subsequent icons, expands the file
and displays the file contents in the following cascading order:
- Start date
- Start time
- APPLID
- Transaction ID
In the following screen capture, the file
sample.CSV in
the folder Old CSV files contains data summarized by start date and
time, and using various time intervals. The start time 03:30:00 contains
an APPLID, APOC3C1, containing two transaction IDs.
You can select a sub-set
of data and copy it from CICS PA
and paste it into a spreadsheet application:
Procedure
- Right-click the records that you want to use and select Sheet
view from the context menu. A new tab opens
displaying the records you have chosen.
- Copy the records.
- Open your spreadsheet application and paste the records
into it. The data is displayed in the spreadsheet application.
Example
In the Project Explorer view you can select a single Transaction
ID, multiple Transaction IDs, a single time period, multiple time
periods, a single date period, multiple date periods, or any combination.
As you make your selection, the spreadsheet view is updated. See
The Sheet view topic for more information.