CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS® (CICS PA)

CICS® Performance Analyzer (CICS PA) is a reporting tool that provides information on the performance of your CICS systems and applications, and helps you tune, manage, and plan your CICS systems effectively.

CICS PA also provides a Historical Database facility to help you manage the performance data for your CICS transactions.

CICS PA is not an online monitoring tool - instead, it provides reports and extracts using the data normally collected by your system in MVS™ System Management Facility (SMF) data sets: CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF) performance, exception and transaction resource class records (SMF 110), DB2® accounting records (SMF 101), WebSphere® MQ accounting records (SMF 116), and System Logger records (SMF 88). It is designed to complement the CICS-supplied utilities and sample programs such as DFH$MOLS, DFHSTUP, and DFH0STAT.

CICS PA can help:

CICS PA reports all aspects of CICS system activity and resource usage, including:

For more information on the reports provided, see Using CICS PA to analyze CICS performance.

CICS PA provides both an ISPF dialog and a command interface. You can use either to request your reports and extracts. For more information, see The CICS PA dialog.

Related concepts
The CICS PA dialog
Using CICS PA to analyze CICS performance

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