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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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

Capability to select specific IP address in batch

In order to have reports for specific server, It would be nice to be able to select an IP address (more than 8 characters) on a select/INC/EXC statement.
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Process Liberty SMF 120 for zOS Connect

Liberty SMF 120 Subtype 11 records SM120BBW has the time record when liberty received the zOS Connect request. Once the request is successfully dispatch to z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect records SMF123S1_TIME_ZC_ENTRY entry. Currently PA formats SMF 1...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CMF exception records into HDB

Loading CMF exception records into a HDB
about 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Memory usage of programs in a task.

We use CICSPA for analyze CICS tasks performance. We want to see memory usage of programs in a tasks. CICSPA provide this information only in task detail.
over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 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.
over 5 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 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration