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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 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 ...
over 9 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 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Provide number of bytes transmitted at end of run

Many Splunk/Elastic users are sensitive to the number of bytes ingested. As part of the "End of File Record Counts", can you include total bytes sent if a TCP destination was used? Or even during an extract, as we sometimes run multiple trials run...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Planned for future release

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

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.
about 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under 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.
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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.
about 1 year 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 ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 7 Functionality already exists

Provide ability to Include/Exclude/OMIT zOS Conn LIST report.

CICS PA zOS Connect LIST report helps to format individual records as such. Currently it reports 40+ Fields. Can we be provided with option to OMIT fields that we dont want in the report. Can we be provided with Filter option to INCLUDE / EXCLUE r...
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release