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CICS/PA support for static field

We would like to add the plex name as a JSON element when sending to Splunk. I'm not sure where the plex name can be sourced - it could be a variable, or we could determine it from the image name (group name?). It could be a variable that we can s...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS-PA to support z/OS Connect Headers

CICS-PA has added support for z/OS Connect via PH37264, however, it is missing reporting based on headers. Please add support for the 8 headers written to the SMF 123 subtype 1 type 2 record. Support should include the ability to list headers and ...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Enable CICS PA to read input directly from a Logstream

We would like CICS/PA to use the logger logstream as input to a CICS performance report, instead of the SMF data.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Selection Criteria for Transaction Resource record

When I try to fix the AFCY abend (deadlock abend),I have to figure out which file was locked when the deadlock happened and which task locked the file.Usually the task's response time must be long.It's a critical value that I can use to filter the...
about 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICSPA dashboards for Elastic

Hello, Barclays is Elastic Stack user and it would be nice if CICS PA dashboard tool that is being developed would be created not only for Splunk, but also for Elastic too.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Enhance CICS-PA to OMEGAMON report

CICS PA OMEGAMON reports process OMEGAMON for CICS (SMF 112 subtype 203) records to produce a detailed view of how CICS transactions use the following types of database management system (DBMS): Adabas , CA-Datacom, CA-IDMS, Supra. In SMF type112 ...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS PA Database tables have to be recreated when upgrading CICS.

After discussions with a developer at Hursley I found that with each new CICS release the DB Tables in PA will have to be recreated.This will create problems when trying to compare data from a date before upgrade and after. I believe this is unacc...
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

CICS PA Web solution

-- We open this RFE as requested by IBM in our previous PA discussion. Details were discussed in the meeting. We would like to see if IBM has any plans to provide web based analytics to CICSPA, where the PA reports in MF can be sent to a web serve...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Add additional Key fields for CICS PA zOS Connect Summary Report/Extract/Forwarding

Currently zOS Connect report allows 3 key fields. Running reports with 3 key fields gives only high level summary and in many cases this report is not providing much value in problem determination. Having additional Key fields will help us summari...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Make CICS PA Dashboards available in SPLUNK also available in Elastic and Kibana

We acquired the CICS PA Tool last year (2020) as part of our decommissioning of TMON for CICS for the reporting. We are currently using SAS/MXG to build our CICS reports from the TMON for CICS records. We recently saw a presentation with sending C...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered