Monitoring your CICS workload
Monitoring is the process of collecting and reporting data about the items
of work in a system. Monitoring data provides information which workload managers can use to make
their decisions. You can analyze monitoring data reports to choose or adjust performance goals for
the system, tackle any performance problems through tuning activities, and make decisions about your
future strategy and investments. There are a number of CICS® and z/OS® components, and some separate tools, which you can use for workload
monitoring of your CICS regions.
The z/OS Resource Measurement Facility (RMF) The CICS monitoring facility (CMF) DFH$MOLS, the CICS-supplied sample monitoring data print program CICS statistics DFHSTUP and DFH0STAT, CICS statistics reporting programs CICS Performance Analyzer Db2® accounting, IBM® MQ accounting, and logstream data written by the MVS™ System Logger.IBM Z Decision Support IBM Z® Decision Support (previously called Tivoli® Decision Support for z/OS) is a reporting system which can be used to collect and report on data from the z/OS Resource Measurement Facility (including the data provided by the z/OS Workload Manager), the CICS monitoring facility, CICS statistics, and Information Management System (IMS). The data is collected in a Db2 database.