June 2014: CICS PA V5.2
CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS®, V5.2 includes the following features and changes:
- Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.2
- CICS PA supports SMF 110 records created by CICS TS V5.2.
- Batch Reporting for CICS TS and CICS TG Statistics
- Fully customizable batch reporting of CICS TS and CICS TG Statistics, allowing you to select the desired fields and order of the fields in List type reports.
- Support for performance alerts in the List HDB
- Support creation of a List HDB with associated performance alerts loaded into separate containers, allowing analysis of the alerts using the CICS PA plug-in and standard List HDB reports, as well as DB2®.
- New Summary report tiered format
- Provides a new tiered report that summarizes activity based on two level keys. The tiered Summary report format allows the specification of primary and secondary summary keys. The sample form MPAPPSUM contains the layout for a tiered Platform - Application Summary report.
- Include or exclude resources or APPLIDs in statistics alerts
- This option allows additional flexibility in the selection of records of statistics alerts.
- New sample JCL members and sample report forms
- New sample JCL members in SCPASAMP library: CPASTLST (runs the Statistics List report) and CPATRSUM (runs the tiered Performance Summary reports).
- New sample report forms for platform SUMMARY reports: MPAPPSUM (Platform - Application Summary); MPMISC1 (Response/CPU Summary); MPMISC2 (Misc Requests Summary); MPTDRQ (TD Request Summary); MPTSRQ (TS Request Summary)
- Updated sample statistics alert CTSSAMPL
- New and enhanced CICS PA plug-in templates
- Existing Summary templates are updated to include additional performance fields and a new template EXPLOR52 is introduced. List type templates are now supported. These are named EXPLSTxx.
- New Form field TRANSTAT
- Support for TRANFLAG byte 5 Transaction Status information.
- CICS TG Statistics Usage and Capacity report enhancements
- Improved layout and additional content.
- Support for DB2 11 for z/OS
- CICS PA now supports DB2 11 for z/OS.
- ISPF dialog changes
- The option to define statistics alerts, which was option 5 on the CICS Statistics Reporting Menu, is now option 5 on the Resource Definitions Menu.
- The Performance Graph Reports (Transaction Rate and Transaction Response Time) are removed from the dialog. The report syntax is still supported by the command processor so existing reporting jobs will still work.
- The FIND command has been introduced in the Statistics Report dialog.
CICS PA V5.2 includes all new features that were introduced in CICS PA V5.1 through service updates. For details, see Previous changes.