Processing CICS monitoring facility output

You can process output from the CICS® monitoring facility using products such as CICS Performance Analyzer and IBM Z® Decision Support, or your own application program, or the supplied sample program DFH$MOLS.

CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS®

CICS Performance Analyzer (CICS PA) is a reporting tool that provides information on the performance of your CICS systems and applications. CICS Performance Analyzer is summarized in this information. For the most up to date information about CICS Performance Analyzer, see the CICS Performance Analyzer documentation.

IBM Z Decision Support

IBM Z Decision Support is a reporting system which uses Db2® to analyze, store and present utilization and throughput data from many sources. The IBM Z Decision Support CICS performance feature provides reports based on data from the CICS monitoring facility and CICS statistics. For a summary of this tool, see IBM Z Decision Support .

The CICS-supplied sample program DFH$MOLS

CICS provides a sample program, DFH$MOLS, which reads, formats, and prints monitoring data. It is intended as a sample program that you can use as a skeleton if you need to write your own program to analyze the data. Comments within the program can help you if you want to do your own processing of CICS monitoring facility output. See Sample monitoring data print program (DFH$MOLS) for more information on the DFH$MOLS program.

Your own program

You might want to write your own application program to report and analyze the data in the monitoring records.

Remember that if you have activated data compression for your SMF 110 monitoring records, the data sections of the records need to be expanded using the z/OS Data Compression and Expansion Services before they can be processed. DFH$MOLS can do this. If you are using a reporting tool, you need to ensure that it supports expansion of the data sections. Data compression for monitoring records has more information on data compression.