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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.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS PA - Improve Data Dictionary mass update process

When using the "Mass update" option to populate the data dictionary file then only the details for the last CICS region to be processed is recorded in the Data Dictionary file. If you need to use Data Dictionary files then you need to have a separ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Move I/O Data Buffers Above the Line

Alter the DCB for standard I/O, reading from SMF input files, to place I/O buffers above the line via the macro DCBE versus DCB. Currently, all buffers are taken from below the line, which is a limited resource.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

threshold on taskcnt for profiling report

I'm using profiling report. But analyzing performance on a small value of taskcnt is not significantI would like to set a "threshold" for a taskcnt value to exclude small activity from analyzis
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

New CICSPA for other wait time

In SMF110 records the suspend time field is the sum of all CICS wait times + "other wait time". We would like to have "other wait time" as a CICSPA field in order to rapidly identify if the problem is a CICS issue or a z/OS issue.
about 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

zospt could provision PA report

CEB would like to know if zospt could help to generate JCL to print PA report,the input properties is kinds of parameters.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS PA More Pre Defined Calculations

We need IBM to produce more CICS PA reports that do some of the calculations that we have do over and over for Performance and tuning . Especially for the Loggers . This would save us so much time and make the product an easier selling point . Wit...
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS Performance Analyzer 5.2 change Report RECFM to FBA

Output List Datasets out of CICSPA 5.2 Reports with are automatically created with RECFM FBM.This cannot be changed. We need RECFM FBA for printing.
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 16 Not under consideration

CICS PA – dynamic thresholds for transaction profiling

Currently thresholds have to be set manually in order to have the CICS PA alert function to work properly. These thresholds have to be changed frequently based on changes in software levels (z/OS, CICS, application) and hardware. We need to have t...
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Message supression in CICS/PA

While running CICS Performance Analyzer reports, we are getting lots of messages for regions that we are not interested in. The messages are CPA0230I and CPA0359W. We don't want to see these messages for systems not being reported by CICS PA i.e n...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration