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CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Program LOADs of a program and total Program XCTL to a program

There are times when we would like to identify whether a program is in use inside a CICS region(s). Performance Analyzer counts generally are associated with the transaction. We need a count of totals number of Program LINKS to a program, total Pr...
about 1 month ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA SIIS Usage removal

Hello, For an Healthcheck study, we were investigating SIIS activity in our systems. You can see IBM documentation realted to SIIS from the links given below. We realized that while CICSPA batch jobs were running the SIIS indicator exceed %10 whic...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Update CICS/PA to utilize zIIPs

The product should be enhanced to offload to zIIPs to reduce the hardware cost of implementation.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Plug-in integration with IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator

CICS PA allows you to store data in DB2 tables. CICS PA Plug in can then query such data from the Explorer. IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator is the IBM strategic appliance for data intensive DB2 queries. Lack of integration of CICS PA Plugin with IBM...
over 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Utility to list PA Alerts from repository

Please create a utility to list the records contained in the CICS Performance Analyzer Repository so that any changes to specific record types can be monitored for drift from a baseline.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Submitting of HDB batch jobs

CICS PA for the HDB creation builds the job/s into a single job that has multiple jobs inside of that single job. That doesn't work well for production standards, where we have to execute jobs thru a scheduling tool. Would like to have that proces...
over 8 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA Logger report enhancements.

We see CICSPA can read SMF-88 (Logger data). Redbook(Paper ) redp-3768 describes how SMF-88 and SMF-110 can be used together to tune the Logger files. While all these calculations can be manually done, we would like to know if CICSPA can be enhanc...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration