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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 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...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow Custom Interval Start Time for Interval Reports

I run a CICS PA SUMMARY report, with INTERVAL(00:15:00) to get 15 minute intervals. The defaults seem to be on 00:00:00, 00:15:00, 00:30:00 and 00:45:00. But I need to force the intervals to match the SMF 30 recording intervals that a customer ha...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 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.
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 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.
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 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.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CMF exception records into HDB

Loading CMF exception records into a HDB
about 4 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.
over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Make the CICS PA able to use DB2 tables as an input data source

Make the CICS PA able to use DB2 tables as an input data source, particulary the SMF110 records loaded by the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Loader for z/OS.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration