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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 21, 2023

Provide workspace to see transaction summary activity for whole CICSPlex in one screen

In very large institutions it's hard for people to see a enterprise-wide view of what is happening in CICS and the whole CICSplex. We are asking for a summary screen / workspace much like the FIND ACTIVE workspace, but with summary data as I will document below.

Summary data should be able to summarize per region, LPAR and total for the whole CICSPLEX.

The intention is to see a single line for a transaction. On this line we want to know how many of this transaction are currently un the system. What the average CPU utilization is for these transactions and what the avg response times are. Say we have 50 WXYZ transactions in the system, from these 50 we would like to see a breakdown on how many of these are waiting of things in CICS. 5 might be in a TCLASS wait, 4 in MQWAIT, 6 in DSA wait, 4 in FCIO wait, and the rest are running.

Waits that might be worth listing - IRC link wait, TCLASS wait, Maxtask, DSA waits, Disptach wait, MQ wait, Socket wait, In DB2, DB2 thread wait, Enqueue wait, File control IO wait, ZC wait, Interval control wait.

We make extensive use of the umbrella service and showing the primary transaction and associated umbrella on this workspace will be extremely useful.

Now that we have a workspace layout for all active transactions, we would like to be able to look at this in different ways.

Summary by region. Example - in a region we have a total of 50 WXYZ transactions and provide the remaining of the above listed data. 

By LPAR. Disregard the region the transactions are in, but provide the summary per transaction on each LPAR. Example - in  a LPAR we have a total of 50 WXYZ transactions and provide the remaining of the above listed data. 

By CICSPLEX. Regardless of the region or LPAR, provide summary for transactions with the above layout. Example - in the CICSPLEX we have a total of 50 WXYZ transactions and provide the remaining of the above listed data. 

 

Regardless of the context of the layout, add a top line to the workspace with a total display for the CICSPLEX. Total number of transactions, and break them down in the respective wait buckets.

 

 

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 21, 2023

    Provide filtering for transaction, lpar, and cics region. Example - I do not want to see a summary of all transactions and only interested in ABCD transaction, or transactions running in CICSA* regions, or QWER transactions in LPAR PRD1.