Resource statistics data: CICS

Learn about the data that is returned for the CICS® resource type when you activate resource statistics collection.

You can view these statistics in the web user interface, or you can write a program that subscribes to a publication (single XML message) that returns this data. For an example of the publication message, see Example XML output.

A CICSRequest node calls CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® programs. Use these resource statistics to review how many successful and unsuccessful calls the node is making to CICS, how many unsuccessful requests are related to security issues such as authentication failures, and how often connection attempts fail.

A statistics summary is returned for the whole integration server, followed by a breakdown for each named CICS Transaction Server for z/OS region.

The following table describes the measurements that are returned for each CICS region. Each row of statistics represents a CICS region, which is identified either by a configurable service, or by the CICSRequest node CICS server URL.

In this example, the configurable service is identified by myCICSConnectionService, and the integration node is identified by APPLIDBRKApp and qualifier BRKQual:
```
myCICSConnectionService.BRKApp.BRKQual
```
In this example, the CICSRequest node CICS server URL is identified by tcp://mycicsregion.com:12345:
```
tcp://mycicsregion.com:12345
```

Measurements	Description
RequestSuccess	The number of requests to CICS that are successful.
RequestFailures	The total number of requests to CICS that fail. The value that is returned by this measurement does not include connection failures. Connection failure values are returned by the `ConnectionAttemptFailures` measurement.
RequestSecurityFailures	The number of failed requests to CICS that were caused by security issues, such as authentication failures.
ConnectionAttemptFailures	The number of connection attempts that fail.