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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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'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 10 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 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Allow Custom Interval Start Time for Interval Reports

I run a CICS PA SUMMARY report, with INTERVAL(00:15:00) to get 15 minute intervals. The defaults seem to be on 00:00:00, 00:15:00, 00:30:00 and 00:45:00. But I need to force the intervals to match the SMF 30 recording intervals that a customer ha...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICSPA to support COLLENGTH for TASKCNT on PROFILING report

The amount of transaction volume on our production LPAR causes this field to be displayed with exponential notation usually with an E2 or E3 suffix. For accuracy it is preferred to have a complete number for this field.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 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 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 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.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Fixed DSN for containers

We would like to have, in option, a fixed dsn for containers in HDB
about 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 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.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future 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.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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