The CICS® PA plug-in is
an Eclipse plug-in that extends the IBM® CICS Explorer® to help
you analyze CICS monitoring
and statistics data processed by the CICS PA
product.
Overview
You use the CICS PA plug-in with
the CICS PA host to analyze CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF)
performance and statistical class data. You can access the data directly
from a CICS PA database, or
you can use CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS® to
format the data as a comma-separated variable (CSV) file and load
it into the CICS PA plug-in for
analysis.
This getting started information describes accessing
the data directly from a CICS PA
database. For information about using CSV data, see Working with CSV data.
You can use
the
CICS PA plug-in for
the following tasks:
- For performance data:
- Viewing and sorting CSV or database data in a spreadsheet viewer.
- Selecting one or more transactions for analysis.
- Viewing CICS performance
alert reports and navigating to specific records.
- Viewing graphical details of transaction performance metrics,
including response time, suspend time, CPU time, file usage, and storage
usage.
- For statistics data:
- Viewing interval-based graphical charts that show multiple system
metrics, including storage and transaction response.
- Viewing CICS statistics
alert reports and navigating to specific records.
To use the statistics visualizations in the CICS PA plug-in,
certain statistics tables are required in the CICS PA database. For information about which
statistics tables are required in the CICS PA
database, see The CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer in CICS
Performance Analyzer product documentation.
Next steps
- If you are familiar with the CICS Explorer
interface, continue with the topics in this section to learn how to
use the CICS PA plug-in.
- If you are new to the CICS
Explorer interface, you can go to the Getting started topic in the CICS Explorer User Guide to learn about the CICS Explorer. Alternatively, you
can use the Search bar to find specific information in the help.
- If you are new to the Eclipse interface, you can go to the Basic tutorial topic in the CICS Explorer User Guide to learn how to use
perspectives and views. Alternatively, you can use the search field
to find specific information in this help.
- For further help on Eclipse, see Eclipse
documentation.