Tasks
These tasks illustrate how you can set up and use CICS® PA plug-in to analyze your CICS performance data.
- Customizing the layout in the Sheet view
To customize the layout in the Sheet view, you can set the number of records to retrieve, change the column layout, sort the data by column, and filter the data. - Analyzing the performance summary by using charts
You can use the CICS PA plug-in for CICS response time, user CPU time, threadsafe, storage usage, and file request activity analysis. You can view the data selected for analysis as pie charts, bar charts, or timeline charts. You can also view the properties and values of a transaction ID. - Analyzing resource interactions by using the CICS IA plug-in
You can link directly from a Transaction ID in the CICS PA plug-in for the CICS Explorer® to CICS Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA) to analyze the relationship between individual Transaction IDs and other resources. - Visualizing CICS program load activity
You can use the LDG Loader global, LDG Storage DSA, and LDG Storage EDSA views to visualize CICS program load activity and analyze transaction activity and program usage in relation to the CICS Dynamic Storage Areas (DSAs) and the amount of program storage allocated. - Visualizing storage
You can use the SMS Storage global, SMS Storage DSA, SMS Storage EDSA, SMS Storage GDSA, and SMT Task subpools views to visualize storage and analyze storage statistics. - Visualizing task dispatcher performance
You can use the DSG Dispatcher global view to visualize CICS task dispatcher performance and analyze dispatcher statistics. - Visualizing transaction activity
You can use the MNG Monitoring global view to visualize transaction activity, the concurrent transaction load, and the transaction response time for this interval. - Visualizing transaction performance
You can use the XMG Transaction global, XMC Transaction class, and XMR Transaction resource views to visualize transaction performance and analyze transaction and transaction class statistics. - Working with CSV data
You can use the CICS PA plug-in to analyze CICS monitoring facility (CMF) performance data that was extracted and formatted as a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file by using CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS®. - Working with reports
You can use the reports that are provided in the CICS PA plug-in to help you tune and manage the performance of your CICS systems, and plan capacity for future use. Alternatively, you can use the statistics visualization views to obtain this information. - Filtering reports
You can filter which types of reports are displayed in the Reports view by report category, report type, or column of input data. - Changing the colors in the charts
You can change the colors that are used to identify the different fields in the visual representations in CICS PA. - Logging SQL queries
You can log all the SQL queries that are issued by the CICS IA or CICS PA plug-in, and view the query text, the time when the query was issued, and the ID of the process thread that executed the query.
Parent topic: CICS PA plug-in User Guide