CICS tools for monitoring and gathering performance data

CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS (CICS PA)

CICS Performance Analyzer is a performance reporting and analysis 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 provides historical performance and statistical information about CICS systems and applications using data collected from CICS and any connected sub-systems including Db2®, IMS, and MQ.

CICS PA can be used to produce comprehensive performance reporting and analysis help to evaluate CICS system efficiency, eliminate system bottlenecks and proactively tune system performance including threadsafe analysis. It provides over 250 pre-defined, customizable reports, along with the facilities to create your own reports and extracts.

The CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer integrates performance data into CICS Explorer and allows you to, for example, right-click CICS resource in the CICS Explorer and display historical performance information about it.

For more information about CICS PA, see CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS.

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS (CICS IA)

CICS Interdependency Analyzer is a productivity tool used to discover and analyze CICS resources and identify relationships between them.

CICS IA dynamically discovers runtime relationships among key resources within your CICS system. It does this by monitoring applications for API and SPI commands along with optional Db2, IMS, MQ and COBOL calls to give you a complete picture of your application and the interactions and resources that are referenced along with their inter-relationship. CICS IA can help you analyze applications for Threadsafe considerations to improve the overall execution efficiency.

CICS IA stores its data in a Db2 database and this can be accessed offline for querying and reporting by the CICS IA reporter component. CICS IA also provides a CICS Explorer plug-in, which allows you to, for example, right-click a CICS resource in the CICS Explorer and display all the resources related to it.

The CICS IA Command Flow feature gives you the ability to capture and view all EXEC CICS, SQL, MQ, and IMS calls in chronological order. This feature can be helpful in diagnosing the flow of your application as it executes along with the ability to identify TCB mode switches to help with tuning and Threadsafe analysis.

For more information about CICS IA, see CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS