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CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA SIIS Usage removal

Hello, For an Healthcheck study, we were investigating SIIS activity in our systems. You can see IBM documentation realted to SIIS from the links given below. We realized that while CICSPA batch jobs were running the SIIS indicator exceed %10 whic...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

more configurable BIND module for program level parameters

* BIND dynamically * *** this module is already developed by CIO *** The actual bind module parameters are staticly defined in the environment file. This doesn't allows set parameters by DBRM files. There should be a bind instruction file w...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 3 Not under consideration

CICS PA Plug-in integration with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator

CICS PA allows you to store data in DB2 tables. CICS PA Plug in can then query such data from the Explorer. IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator is the IBM strategic appliance for data intensive DB2 queries. Lack of integration of CICS PA Plugin with IBM...
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Update CICS/PA to utilize zIIPs

The product should be enhanced to offload to zIIPs to reduce the hardware cost of implementation.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve the loading performance in CICS IA

When loading a huge data array from VSAM affinity files into DB2 database affinity tables, CIUAFFLD job takes long time to be processed.
over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Program LOADs of a program and total Program XCTL to a program

There are times when we would like to identify whether a program is in use inside a CICS region(s). Performance Analyzer counts generally are associated with the transaction. We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Pr...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

CPU excessive when collecting data using CICS IA 5.1 and CICS IA 5.2.

Customer attempts to collect data using CICS Interdependency Analyzer. The CPU increases significantly when when CICS IA is activated. Customer performed tests where CICS CPU performance increased from 27% to 62% under CICS IA 5.1. There is some i...
over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration