When you are developing a master plan for monitoring and performance analysis,
you should establish:
- A master schedule of monitoring activity. You should coordinate monitoring
with operations procedures to allow for feedback of online events as well
as instructions for daily or periodic data gathering.
- The tools to be used for monitoring. The tools used for data gathering
should provide for dynamic monitoring, daily collection of statistics, and
more detailed monitoring. (See Planning your monitoring schedule.)
- The kinds of analysis to be performed. This must take into account any
controls you have already established for managing the installation. You should
document what data is to be extracted from the monitoring output, identifying
the source and usage of the data. Although the formatted reports provided
by the monitoring tools help to organize the volume of data, you may need
to design worksheets to assist in data extraction and reduction.
- A list of the personnel who are to be included in any review of the findings.
The results and conclusions from analyzing monitor data should be made known
to the user liaison group and to system performance specialists.
- A strategy for implementing changes to the CICS® system design resulting from tuning recommendations.
This has to be incorporated into installation management procedures, and
would include items such as standards for testing and the permitted frequency
of changes to the production environment.

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