Why collect CICS statistics?
CICS statistics contain information about the CICS system
as a whole; for example, its performance and usage of resources. Statistics
data is, therefore, useful both for performance tuning and for capacity
planning.
Collecting and extracting CICS statistics
The statistics collected by CICS are
written to an SMF data set. However, a user program can use the CICS Explorer®Regions operations
view, the EXEC CICS COLLECT STATISTICS command
and the EXEC CICS EXTRACT STATISTICS command to
collect the current statistics for a particular resource, or overall
statistics for the resources of a particular type.