Creating IMS reports using IMS Performance Analyzer

You can use the Transaction Analysis Workbench ISPF dialog to create batch reports that help you to analyze IMS transactions. To create these IMS reports, you must have IMS Performance Analyzer installed on your system.

Before you begin

Before you can use the dialog to create IMS reports, you must create a session, and then add the associated log files.

Check that ISPF dialog option 0.5 IMS Tools Settings specifies the IMS Performance Analyzer load library. The default low-level qualifier of this library is SIPILINK. The dialog uses this data set name in the STEPLIB DD statement of the report JCL.

Procedure

  1. On the session menu, select option 4 Reporting.
  2. Select reporting option 1 IMS.
  3. Select the types of analysis that you want.

    The following table shows how the type of analysis determines the IMS Performance Analyzer report generated:

    Table 1. Creating IMS reports: how the type of analysis determines the IMS Performance Analyzer report generated
    Type of analysis IMS Performance Analyzer report generated IMSPALOG command operand
    Individual transaction detail (see Note) Transaction Transit List LIST
    Transaction statistical summary (see Note) Transaction Transit Summary SUMMARY
    IMS system resources Internal Resource Usage IRUR
    Deadlock analysis Deadlock DEADLOCK(LIST,SUMMARY)
    Note: The options under Focus of transaction analysis apply only to two types of analysis: individual transaction detail and transaction statistical summary. Each option under Focus of transaction analysis generates a separate form-based report containing fields that are relevant to that focus. For details, see the FIELDS operand in the JCL generated later in this procedure.
  4. If you selected individual transaction detail or transaction statistical summary, select one or more focus of analysis.
  5. Optionally, specify a report interval. If you omit the report interval, the reports use the entire input IMS log files.
  6. Select the IMS system or the IMS log file that you want to report against.

    If you select an IMS system, then the reports use all of the IMS log files associated with that system for this session.

  7. Press Enter to generate the report JCL.
    The JCL is displayed in a Notepad panel.
  8. Submit the job: enter SUB on the command line.

    If you do not have IMS Performance Analyzer installed on your system, the job will fail.

  9. View the job output in the session workflow: return to the session menu, select option 2 Workflow, and then enter ? next to the corresponding task.

    For more information about the reports, see the IMS Performance Analyzer documentation.