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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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

CICS PA and CPSM Topology

To help expedite CICS PA setup and region groupings it would be good if CICS PA could leverage CPSM topology. Ideally this connection to CPSM should be ongoing, such that updates to CPSM topology are reflected in CICS PA. This CPSM connection prec...
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Record CICSPA timing clocks correctly when task is purged.

A false value was detected in a certain transaction of the CICSPA report. The transaction was abended after being purged by a user program. This system is designed to have its tasks purged by user programs lest prolonged CICS transactions should k...
about 7 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA More Pre Defined Calculations

We need IBM to produce more CICS PA reports that do some of the calculations that we have do over and over for Performance and tuning . Especially for the Loggers . This would save us so much time and make the product an easier selling point . Wit...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS Performance Analyzer 5.2 change Report RECFM to FBA

Output List Datasets out of CICSPA 5.2 Reports with are automatically created with RECFM FBM.This cannot be changed. We need RECFM FBA for printing.
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 16 Not under consideration

Generate PA report in distributed platform

User want to download CICS SMF data to linux system and run PA report generation in linux system
almost 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 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...
almost 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 ...
about 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...
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration