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Enhance CICSPA Logger report for Parallel SYSPLEX environment

The Logger report generated by CICSPA in the current releases (we are using V5.3) is not suitable for parallel Sysplex environment. As per https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPPU4_5.2.0/cpaug76.html : " To obtain a sysplex-wide view o...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Add symbolic variable &WW for cyclic datasets

Some customers include a week identifier for weekly SMF datasets. For example sys4.201632 where 2016 is the year and 32 is the week of the year. Using symbolics, the cyclic dataset name is sys4.&yyyy&ww.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

CICS PA Historical Database (HDB) needs to provide support for data from multiple releases of CICS TS

CICS PA Historical Database (HDB) needs to provide support for data from multiple releases of CICS TS
almost 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS PA -- Account for hardware changes in the CICS environment

In CICS PA reporting there is no consideration for changes to the hardware environment. We need the reports to include a consideration for the hardware change so we are able to more readily determine if the change in the application performance is...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

"cross domain" datas reports for statistics (CICS and CTG)

We are using CICSPA to analyze CICS and CTG statistics by using batch reports.These reports are formatted. We would like to generate "flexible reports' as we can do with SMF110(1) records
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Ability to Find and Locate Report Set - Forms.

Performance Analyzer - When selecting reports within a report set (Option #2), available report forms are displayed by using the F4 prompt. Once the list of available report forms are displayed, there is no way to search through the list of forms....
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Provide filtering by APPLID or IMAGE in CICS PA Statistics reporting option to allow filtered SMF datasets to be displayed

The customer assumes that specifying APPLID (and possibly Image) would filter the SMF datasets in System Definitions to only those defined for the specified APPLID/Image. Based on Report Sets file selection, this is a valid assumption. However, th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide CPU Totals on CICS PA MQ reports

Update CICS PA so the MQ reports provide a single value which gives the transaction's total CPU time spent within MQ
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS PA v3.2 LISTX report TRANFLAG abnormal termination bit

CICS PA does not have the capability of producing a report containing a list of all SMF110 performance records that have abnormally terminated, as recorded within TRANFLAG (DFHTASK_164) byte 5 bit 7 which is set on abnormal termination. IBM APAR P...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

New facility for managing (removing) data loaded to CICS PA DB2 tables

CICS PA has facilities to load data to DB2 tables from HDBs, but there are no facilities to remove or manipulate the loaded data. Specifically for the Explorer HDB/DB2 tables the product needs to have a mechanism to remove data from the DB2 data a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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