APA plug-in is a desktop version of APA/ISPF and encompasses both the Observation Request and Reporting functions, including the R02 screens list, detail views, edit function's and reports for the Observation. APA Plugin can be installed on existing desktop products such as RD/z, Problem Determination Tools Studio, CICS Explorer and Eclipse. APA is available in English, Korean and Japanese languages.
The APA plug-in is an alternative interface to Application Performance Analyzer that in addition to new features, is also meant to provide a majority of parallel tools and functionality as those from APA/ISPF, the main interface to Application Performance Analyzer. It is used for submitting new observation requests, and for navigating the Performance Analysis Reports generated from observation requests.
APA is organized into several components which include a menu, toolbars, views and dialogs. Toolbars are available both for the Main application and for most of the views.
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The views display and provide functions to multiple components of APA at once. The major views include: STC View, listing all active started tasks, Observations List View, listing all observations, Observation Detail View providing details of an observation, Reports List View, listing all reports for an observation and Report View, which displays an individual report.