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Change to PA to allow date modification when plugging into MS Excel

When plugging PA data via select/all/copy and then into MS Excel via Paste, the date column is not allowed to be changed to either custom date formats in Excel or into MM/DD/YYYY format.
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Need "filters" to "hold" when copying to spreadsheet AND summary of avg response times for transactions

More analysis functions needed in CICS PA PluginWe are trying to use CICS PA to look at average response times for a day and by the hour to assess performance.Currently, I have to copy the Transaction Summary to a spreadsheet and spend a number of...
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 1 Delivered

Peformance Analyzer - Explorer Performance Summary Charts

I'm in the process of proposing a Request for Enhancement. within the PA plug-in of the explorer that provides user the functionality to gain a summarized view of transactions (so each line point, or bar (if bar graph) would be for all the transac...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Provide a checkbox to NOT show IBM transactions

A feature I'd like to see is the ability (via a check box probably) of NOT showing IBM transactions in the PA plugin view. This is an issue in CICS Explorer (at least to me) as well. I am using the HDB currently in CICS EXplorer with the plugin. T...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Allow non display of rows in PA views by mask

It would be beneficial to us to be able to then filter by “only show transactions where say the Response Time Average is > than some value”. This type of functionality could apply to other columns in the tabular view (or maybe to only certain c...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS Explorer plugin needs the Top 20 type view

In order to quickly look at the previous days worst performing transactions (response times, # tcb switches etc), the Explorer plugin needs to have that capability.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 8 Delivered

Enhance Transaction inclusion/exclusion selection in the PA plug-in

The customer wants to load all transactions to the CICS PA database, and then selectively display information. Currently via the explorer you can select a specific transactions to be displayed by doing an ALT CLICK on the transaction id window. Th...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Performance Summary improvement for CICS Explorer PA Plugin

This request applies to the Explorer plugin for PA. When looking at a Performance Summary tab view, it would be advantageous (to all users I believe) to be able to use a key (like up or down arrow) to select a given region/day etc and have a view ...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered