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User can provide baseline value in Profiling reports

Now the Profiling report's baseline must be the other day's SMF data.But we want to set our own baseline value.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add filtering to Statistic Reports

I believe it would be useful to add filters to both List and Summary Statistics report. For example, report on a given transaction when looking at transaction stats. Or only report transactions that have an ATTACH>0. For file stats it could be ...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 7 Functionality already exists

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 7 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 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Logger report enhancements.

We see CICSPA can read SMF-88 (Logger data). Redbook(Paper ) redp-3768 describes how SMF-88 and SMF-110 can be used together to tune the Logger files. While all these calculations can be manually done, we would like to know if CICSPA can be enhanc...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA needs improved messages related to dictionary processing

CICS PA needs provide more robust and detailed informational messages related to why the default dictionary record is chosen.
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

'Yesterday' selection in Cics PA Plugin

Please change meaning of 'Yesterday' from 24 hours prior to the current time to common meaning of yesterday.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

CICS/PA to save dictionary records for later use

We would like CICS/PA to write out the dictionary records it finds as it reads CICS 110 data. Then as dictionary records age off, they can be removed (not copied) to the dictionary file.
over 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS PA and ODM Metrics within CICS

Within CICS Performance Analyzer is the capability to view the components that make up the response time of a transaction. As an example, I can determine how much time was spent in DB2, in MQ and other subsystems that CICS uses to complete a unit ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Fixed DSN for containers

We would like to have, in option, a fixed dsn for containers in HDB
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration