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Ability to specify Clock time Interval for Cyclic day file definitions

Current limitation of trying to use CICS PA Panels is when defining day cyclic smf files, it is treated as midnight to midnight cut. In reality our smf data is from around 4am - 4am (Staggered between different LPARS). This means when generating a...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Utility to list PA Alerts from repository

Please create a utility to list the records contained in the CICS Performance Analyzer Repository so that any changes to specific record types can be monitored for drift from a baseline.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Submitting of HDB batch jobs

CICS PA for the HDB creation builds the job/s into a single job that has multiple jobs inside of that single job. That doesn't work well for production standards, where we have to execute jobs thru a scheduling tool. Would like to have that proces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CICSPA to support COLLENGTH for TASKCNT on PROFILING report

The amount of transaction volume on our production LPAR causes this field to be displayed with exponential notation usually with an E2 or E3 suffix. For accuracy it is preferred to have a complete number for this field.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CMF exception records into HDB

Loading CMF exception records into a HDB
almost 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Memory usage of programs in a task.

We use CICSPA for analyze CICS tasks performance. We want to see memory usage of programs in a tasks. CICSPA provide this information only in task detail.
about 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA and CPSM Topology

To help expedite CICS PA setup and region groupings it would be good if CICS PA could leverage CPSM topology. Ideally this connection to CPSM should be ongoing, such that updates to CPSM topology are reflected in CICS PA. This CPSM connection prec...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Record CICSPA timing clocks correctly when task is purged.

A false value was detected in a certain transaction of the CICSPA report. The transaction was abended after being purged by a user program. This system is designed to have its tasks purged by user programs lest prolonged CICS transactions should k...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Generate PA report in distributed platform

User want to download CICS SMF data to linux system and run PA report generation in linux system
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

find or locate command avalaible through ISPF panels for statistics

CICSPA should provide locate or find command when accessing statistics information through ISPF panels
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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