CICS PA provides a menu-driven dialog to request generation of reports and extracts for analyzing and tuning the performance of your CICS® Transaction Server systems. CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF) performance class, exception class, and transaction resource class data in MVS™ System Monitoring Facility (SMF) files provide the input to the CICS PA reports and extracts. In addition, DB2® and MQ accounting, System Logger, and OMEGAMON® XE for CICS records in SMF files are analyzed by specific reports.
Facilities are provided to help you to specify your input files, filter the data, and tailor the reports and extracts to suit your requirements.
The dialog requires no special customization or setup. Reporting can commence immediately.
By following the topic on 'Defining a Report Set for daily monitoring' in the CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS® Getting Started Guide you can quickly get an insight into how to use the dialog.
Perhaps a good report to then try is either the Performance Totals report or the Performance Summary report with the data summarized by Transaction ID within APPLID. A Performance Totals report can be a particularly useful starting point in that the report (a) is relatively small, less than ten pages, and (b) can provide an immediate indication of which area to look into next.
Sample jobs for each report and extract are provided in Sample library.