Reference

These topics provide reference information for Transaction Analysis Workbench.

Filters: Log record selection criteria
Filters enable you to select the log records that you want to analyze and exclude others. For example, you can define a filter to select only those records of a particular log type and code that are associated with a particular transaction code or user ID.
Forms: Fields of interest in a log record
A form is a list of the fields that are of interest to you from one type of log record.
CICS-DBCTL reports
CICS-DBCTL reports process CMF records, IMS log records, or both, to help diagnose problems with CICS-DBCTL transactions.
DB2 accounting exception reports and extracts
DB2® accounting exception reports and extracts are generated from DB2 accounting (SMF type 101) records.
SMF reports
Transaction Analysis Workbench provides reports for several types of SMF record. The reports show selected fields from the specified SMF record type, and values calculated from those fields, to help you analyze transactions.
Report and extract utility
The report and extract utility processes logs to create reports and extracts; convert logs to comma-separated values (CSV) or or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON); runs REXX execs that process log files; and exports or imports controls (filters, forms, and object lists) between control repositories.
System take-up utility
The system take-up utility reads a plain-text file of system definitions, and then defines the corresponding systems in Transaction Analysis Workbench system definition repositories.
Automated file selection utility
The JCL statements to invoke the automated file selection utility, FUWFILES, depend on the type of log file that you want to select.
Task scheduler
The task scheduler manages the execution of some or all of the tasks in a session workflow, allowing you to perform a workflow without user intervention. The scheduler runs as a batch job, submitting the tasks in order, stopping if a task fails.
REXX API for formatting and analyzing logs
Transaction Analysis Workbench provides a REXX application programming interface (API) that you can use to format and analyze logs.
Knowledge module source reference
Knowledge module source members are assembler source. They consist of your original mapping macro, calls to the knowledge module macro FUWUKMF, and exit routines that enable you to programmatically alter field attributes.
System and file types
System definitions are stored in one of two system definition repositories, depending on the system type. Each system type can write to one or more types of files. Some file types can contain records from more than one system type. Some types of files are eligible for automated file selection.
Log stream types
Transaction Analysis Workbench can read log records in log streams. To refer to a log stream in Transaction Analysis Workbench, you prefix the log stream name with a log stream type followed by a colon.
Log types and codes
Transaction Analysis Workbench uses two identifiers to classify log records: a general log type and a more specific log code.
Event time stamps versus log record time stamps
Transaction Analysis Workbench defines an event time stamp for each input log record. Transaction Analysis Workbench presents event time stamps in various contexts, such as the Time column of the ISPF dialog log browser and the time field of CSV and JSON output. What the event time stamp represents depends on the record type.
Global fields
Global fields are generic field names defined by Transaction Analysis Workbench that map to record-type specific field names in log records.
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