CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS (CICS PA)

CICS® Performance Analyzer (CICS PA) is a reporting tool that provides information on the performance of your CICS systems and applications, and helps you tune, manage, and plan your CICS systems effectively.

CICS PA can help:
  • System Programmers to track overall CICS system performance and evaluate the results of their system tuning efforts
  • Application Programmers to analyze the performance of their applications and the resources they use
  • Database Administrators to analyze the usage and performance of database systems such as IMS and Db2®
  • IBM® MQ Administrators to analyze the usage and performance of their IBM MQ messaging systems
  • Managers to ensure transactions are meeting their required Service Levels and measure trends to help plan future requirements and strategies
CICS PA provides an ISPF menu-driven dialog to help you request and submit your reports and extracts. The available reports and extracts are grouped by category:
  • Performance reports
    • List
    • List extended
    • Summary
    • Totals
    • Wait analysis
    • Transaction profiling
    • Cross-system work
    • Transaction group
    • BTS
    • Workload activity
    • Transaction tracking list
    • Transaction tracking summary
  • Exception reports
    • List
    • Summary
  • Transaction resource usage reports
    • File usage summary
    • Temporary storage usage summary
    • DPL usage summary
    • Transaction resource usage list
  • Statistics reports
    • List
    • Alert
    • CICS Transaction Gateway
  • Subsystem reports
    • Db2
    • IBM MQ
    • OMEGAMON®
  • System reports
    • System logger
  • Extracts
    • Cross-system work
    • Performance
    • Record selection
    • HDB load
    • System logger
    • Statistics
CICS PA also provides a Historical Database (HDB) facility to help you manage the performance and statistics data for your CICS transactions. SMF data is saved in HDB container data sets that are managed from the CICS PA dialog. The following types of HDB are available:
  • Performance List HDB

    A List HDB is built from CMF performance class data. In a List HDB data set, one record represents one transaction. Typically, List HDBs are used to analyze recent transaction events.

  • Performance Summary HDB

    A Summary HDB is built from CMF performance class data. In a Summary HDB data set, one record represents a summary of transaction activity over a user-specified time interval. Typically, Summary HDBs are used for long-term trend analysis and capacity planning.

  • Statistics HDB

    A Statistics HDB contains collections of CICS statistics and server statistics and CICS Transaction Gateway statistics over a specified time interval.

For more information about CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS®, see the CICS Performance Analyzer documentation.