A comparison of CICSPlex SM and CICS monitoring

With CICS, you can collect data about the performance of all user- and CICS-supplied transactions.

These records are written to an MVS™ System Management Facility (SMF) data set as type 110 records. These records can then be used for offline analysis. (If statistics records are also to be written to the SMF data set, you can process the statistics and monitoring records together to obtain resource and system information that complements the transaction data produced by CICS monitoring.)

With CICSPlex® SM, you can collect data about all resource types. That is, you can obtain information about one or more:
  • Transactions
  • Terminals
  • Files
  • Transient data queues
  • Journals
  • Connections
  • Programs
You can also get information about CICS® systems, dynamic storage areas (DSAs), transaction classes, local shared resource (LSR), and temporary storage.