Monitoring

CICS® monitoring provides information about the performance of your application transactions.

You should use the MONITOR command for user event monitoring points.

In addition to the monitoring data collected from a system defined elsewhere, monitoring points (EMPs) within CICS, a user application program can contribute data to user fields within the CICS monitoring records. You can do this by using the MONITOR POINT command to invoke user-defined EMPs. At each of these EMPs, you can add or change up to 4096 bytes of your own data in each performance monitoring record. In those 4096 bytes, you can have any combination of the following:

For example, you could use these user EMPs to count the number of times a certain event occurs, or to time the interval between two events. For programming information about monitoring, see the CICS Customization Guide; for background information, see the CICS Performance Guide.

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