System Selection specifies the systems (CICS® APPLIDs, DB2® SSIDs, MQ SSIDs and System Logger systems) to be reported
by the Report Set. CICS PA matches
these specifications with your System Definitions and constructs the
DD statements for the required SMF Files.
The System Selection can be specified:
- In each report within the Report Set. This specification applies
to this report only.
- In the Global Options of the Report Set. This specification applies
to all reports in the Report Set that do not have their own System
Selection.
- At run time. This overrides the Global Option and optionally the
report-level specification.
The System Selection specification consists of three parts:
- System name
- The name of the system to be reported. When System name is specified,
Image and Group are only use to further qualify the system. For example,
report CICS system CICSP1 that
runs on Image MVS1, not the one that runs on Image MVS2.
- Image
- The MVS™ Image where the system(s)
to be reported run. When specified on its own (without a System name),
then all Systems running on the Image are reported. For example, report
all CICS systems that run on
Image MVS1.
- Group
- The group of systems to be reported. When specified without System
name, then all Systems defined to the Group are reported as a consolidated
group. For example, report all Production MRO CICS systems.
The following sections explain how CICS PA interprets
the various System Selections and which SMF files (defined in your
System Definitions) are used to process the report requests.