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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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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.
about 11 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...
about 11 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...
over 11 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....
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Provide filtering by APPLID or IMAGE in CICS PA Statistics reporting option to allow filtered SMF datasets to be displayed

The customer assumes that specifying APPLID (and possibly Image) would filter the SMF datasets in System Definitions to only those defined for the specified APPLID/Image. Based on Report Sets file selection, this is a valid assumption. However, th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Provide a checkbox to NOT show IBM transactions

A feature I'd like to see is the ability (via a check box probably) of NOT showing IBM transactions in the PA plugin view. This is an issue in CICS Explorer (at least to me) as well. I am using the HDB currently in CICS EXplorer with the plugin. T...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Provide CPU Totals on CICS PA MQ reports

Update CICS PA so the MQ reports provide a single value which gives the transaction's total CPU time spent within MQ
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow non display of rows in PA views by mask

It would be beneficial to us to be able to then filter by “only show transactions where say the Response Time Average is > than some value”. This type of functionality could apply to other columns in the tabular view (or maybe to only certain c...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

CICS PA v3.2 LISTX report TRANFLAG abnormal termination bit

CICS PA does not have the capability of producing a report containing a list of all SMF110 performance records that have abnormally terminated, as recorded within TRANFLAG (DFHTASK_164) byte 5 bit 7 which is set on abnormal termination. IBM APAR P...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

New facility for managing (removing) data loaded to CICS PA DB2 tables

CICS PA has facilities to load data to DB2 tables from HDBs, but there are no facilities to remove or manipulate the loaded data. Specifically for the Explorer HDB/DB2 tables the product needs to have a mechanism to remove data from the DB2 data a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered