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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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CICS PA Historical Database (HDB) needs to provide support for data from multiple releases of CICS TS

CICS PA Historical Database (HDB) needs to provide support for data from multiple releases of CICS TS
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Enhance CICS PA to support user fields of 8192 bytes, the same as CICS

Currently CICS writes up to 8192 bytes in a user EMP. Can CICS PA be enhanced to support the same length user fields rather than the current limit of 255.
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Option in CICS PA to extract fields using LIST without any character conversion

Currently x'00' gets converted to x'40' by the LIST command. This is causing user time values to be corrupted. Request an 'AS-IS' option so that LIST can be used to extract certain user fields wthout applying any conversion.
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

CICS PA -- Account for hardware changes in the CICS environment

In CICS PA reporting there is no consideration for changes to the hardware environment. We need the reports to include a consideration for the hardware change so we are able to more readily determine if the change in the application performance is...
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

"cross domain" datas reports for statistics (CICS and CTG)

We are using CICSPA to analyze CICS and CTG statistics by using batch reports.These reports are formatted. We would like to generate "flexible reports' as we can do with SMF110(1) records
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Change to PA to allow date modification when plugging into MS Excel

When plugging PA data via select/all/copy and then into MS Excel via Paste, the date column is not allowed to be changed to either custom date formats in Excel or into MM/DD/YYYY format.
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS PA Plugin: Add functionality to TransId entry box

Add the ability to be able to enter more than ONE transaction id when using the CICS PA Plugin.
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Need "filters" to "hold" when copying to spreadsheet AND summary of avg response times for transactions

More analysis functions needed in CICS PA PluginWe are trying to use CICS PA to look at average response times for a day and by the hour to assess performance.Currently, I have to copy the Transaction Summary to a spreadsheet and spend a number of...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 1 Delivered

Peformance Analyzer - Explorer Performance Summary Charts

I'm in the process of proposing a Request for Enhancement. within the PA plug-in of the explorer that provides user the functionality to gain a summarized view of transactions (so each line point, or bar (if bar graph) would be for all the transac...
about 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Ability to Find and Locate Report Set - Forms.

Performance Analyzer - When selecting reports within a report set (Option #2), available report forms are displayed by using the F4 prompt. Once the list of available report forms are displayed, there is no way to search through the list of forms....
over 13 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered