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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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

ANALYTIC Report Set to include an ALERT that suppresses entries with zero activity

The supplied ANALYTIC ReportSet for Splunk includes all definitions for 17 different statistics records, generating over a million splunk records each day. Many of the records are for unused entries that we would like suppressed. Can you supply a ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 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

Support for OPORT as a key field for Summary report

A report of #Tasks at MVSID/Service Name/Tran/Remote IP/User/oport level will help us get details about the number of web requests coming via a Secured/Non-Secured CICS port along with the originating remote server. This information will be levera...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Delivered

Enhance CICS PA to process zOS Connect SMF Data for API Requesters

Enable CICS Performance Analyzer to process the SMF data produced by zOS Connect for API Requesters
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Delivered

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...
almost 3 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

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

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

CICS PA Splunk app - Enqmgsum report

The IBM CICS PA Splunk app has a chart for Enqmgsum. The report takes CICS Interval and EOD stats, which seem to be generating lot of records. Is it possible to provide just a summarized chart for Enqmgsum please. Thanks.
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered