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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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Provide a CICS PA Explorer plug-in visualization for performance list data which includes task association data across region

Provide a CICS PA Explorer plug-in visualization for task performance list data which includes task association and hop data to see the tasks across a set of AORs during a period of time.
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 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

Enhance CICS EXPLORER as 3270 & (ISPF) CICS PA 5.1 Plug-In - Allow Customized Report Form

1. Currently CICS Performance Analyzer "Plug-In" in CICS Explorer allows only Explorer x.x Report Form to be the Default and only ones available to display in CICS Explorer. Customization of the report by Adding or Removing Column headings of the ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 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

CSV output for LISTX report

I would like to generate a CSV output for the LISTX report
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

find or locate command avalaible through ISPF panels for statistics

CICSPA should provide locate or find command when accessing statistics information through ISPF panels
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICSPA should provide a field that give cpu time in service units

When we change our CPCs we are not be able anymore to compare transaction CPU consumption.All the datas we have stored before the change become unusefull
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Option to populate PA Group Definitions from CPSM groups

CICS PA should have a mechanism to obtain the region ids that are in CICSPlex groups and populate them into CICS PA's Group definitons (Option 1.3 or 6.2). Currently customers have to manually extract the regions ids from the CICSPlex groups and t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Add mouse hover overs to CICS Explorer PA Plugin reports and Historical DB displays

When using the CICS PA Plugin, there is no easy reference point from the PA plugin column headings to the 8 byte name in the PA documentation. For many of us in the non-IBM world that are not performance experts, I would like to see a mouse hover ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICSPA MQ Queues

Currently in another Vendors Product (part of a Monitoring Product) we have the capability to pull things like CICS Transactions where the Response Time of CICS is on an MQ Getwait for a Specific Queue Name. The person that Support CICSPA for our ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration