Changes to monitoring

Changes to CICS® monitoring data might affect user-written and vendor-written utilities that analyze and print CICS SMF 110 monitoring records.

Check your utility programs that process CICS SMF records to ensure that they can still process SMF 110 records correctly. If you have utility programs provided by independent software vendors, you must ensure that they can handle the SMF 110 records correctly. You can identify SMF 110 records from different releases by using the record-version field in the SMF product section.

• The length of a standard performance class monitoring record, as output to SMF, has increased to 3260 bytes. The length does not allow for any user data that you add, or any system-defined data fields that you exclude, by using a monitoring control table (MCT).
• The offsets have changed for a number of the default CICS dictionary entries in the dictionary data sections of CICS monitoring SMF 110 records.