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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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Enhance CICS-PA to OMEGAMON report

CICS PA OMEGAMON reports process OMEGAMON for CICS (SMF 112 subtype 203) records to produce a detailed view of how CICS transactions use the following types of database management system (DBMS): Adabas , CA-Datacom, CA-IDMS, Supra. In SMF type112 ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Enhance CICS PA to process zOS Connect SMF Data

Enable CICS Performance Analyzer to process the SMF data produced by zOS Connect.
over 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

CICS PA Web solution

-- We open this RFE as requested by IBM in our previous PA discussion. Details were discussed in the meeting. We would like to see if IBM has any plans to provide web based analytics to CICSPA, where the PA reports in MF can be sent to a web serve...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Make CICS PA support 1 table per table space for DB2 version 12

Support one table per table space for DB2 V12.
over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

built in uncompress function thru zEDC for CICS PA utilities

After enable zEDC feature in CMB in last year, all of the SMF data including type 110 which is for CICS sub-system. then the zEDC compressed Logstream records have to be uncompressed at first using SMF utility. then can be read by CICS PA utility ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

Make CICS PA Dashboards available in SPLUNK also available in Elastic and Kibana

We acquired the CICS PA Tool last year (2020) as part of our decommissioning of TMON for CICS for the reporting. We are currently using SAS/MXG to build our CICS reports from the TMON for CICS records. We recently saw a presentation with sending C...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Report Shared Temp Storage alerts using Poolname instead of Logstream Prefix in CICS Performanc Analyzer

The CICS Performance Analyzer tool currently uses the S1PREF field when reporting on alerts for Shared Temp Storage Servers, which is the Shared Temp Storage structure name PREFIX. This name is always going to be DFHXQLS_ by IBM's rules for settin...
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Modification of column heading and column width in reports

In current releases of Cics PA it is not possible to change a column heading or change the maximum column width of numeric values in a report. Is it possible to implement a way to modify column heading and column width in a future release of Cics ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Add additional Key fields for CICS PA zOS Connect Summary Report/Extract/Forwarding

Currently zOS Connect report allows 3 key fields. Running reports with 3 key fields gives only high level summary and in many cases this report is not providing much value in problem determination. Having additional Key fields will help us summari...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

JSON format output

CICS PA supports many report formats for producing CICS Performance and Statistic reports. The data can be generated in Report form, CSV form and even a format to load into an HDB. Today, most products that can use the CICS PA data support the JSO...
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered