CICS monitoring collects data about the performance of all user- and CICS-supplied transactions during online processing for later offline analysis. The records produced by CICS® monitoring are of the MVS™ System Management Facility (SMF) type 110, and are written to an SMF data set.
Monitoring data is useful both for performance tuning and for charging your users for the resources they use.
For information on the performance implications of using the CICS monitoring facility, see CICS monitoring facility: performance considerations.
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