The CICS® PA plug-in is accessed from the CICS PA perspective in the CICS Explorer®. The CICS PA perspective contains multiple views that you can use to analyze your data.
The shortcut bar in the CICS Explorer workbench displays the active perspective name. However, when you start the workbench for the first time, the perspective name might not be available.
From CICS Explorer, use one of the following methods to open the CICS PA perspective.
The CICS PA perspective is displayed.
The following example of the CICS PA perspective shows an active database connection. Transaction summary records for the selected APPLID are displayed in the Sheet view in spreadsheet format.
The CICS SMF Records view shows the records that build a history of monitoring and statistics data for the current connection to the CICS PA host database.
If your data is in one or more CSV files, they are displayed in projects in the Project Explorer view. See Working with CSV data.
The Sheet view displays the selected monitoring or statistics data as a spreadsheet.
The Statistics Alerts view provides details of statistical alerts that CICS PA has captured and loaded into the host DB2 database.
The Transaction Performance Alerts view provides details of performance alerts that CICS PA has captured and loaded into the host DB2 database.
For further details of the views in the perspective, see the related links.