Selection Criteria in Report Forms

In addition to specifying Selection Criteria in Report Sets, Selection Criteria can be used in Report Forms (and also in the History Database; see Performance Selection Criteria). For example, the Sample Report Form BADFILE reports the top 20 Worst File Request transactions. It specifies Selection Criteria (FCTOTAL>0) to ensure only transactions that use File Control services are considered for reporting.

Report Form Selection Criteria specification has two benefits:
  1. Only transactions that use File Control Services (the focus of this Report Form) are selected.
  2. CICS PA only processes (sorts) selected records, significantly reducing the time and overhead of generating the report.
Report Set and Report Form Selection Criteria can be used together: The resultant report will include data for transactions matching MY* that use File Control services. For example:
CICSPA  SELECT(PERF(INCL(TRAN(MY*)))), 
       SELECT2(PERF(INCL(FCTOTAL(>0)))),...
Both SELECT and SELECT2 must match for the record to be processed.