May 2009: CICS PA V3.1

CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS® V3.1 includes the following features and changes:

Statistics alert reporting
Statistics alert reporting enables you to define conditions, in terms of CICS Transaction Server statistics or CICS Transaction Gateway statistics field values, that interest you. You can then use those conditions to report on statistics stored in SMF files or historical databases. For details, see Statistics alert reporting.
Support for CICS Transaction Server V4.1
All CICS PA reports, HDB, and the ISPF dialog support CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) V4.1, which is known by CICS PA as CICS Version 660.
Support for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.2
CICS PA support for CICS Transaction Gateway statistics (SMF type 111 records) has been enhanced to support CICS Transaction Gateway V7.2.
Dropping support for CICS TS V1.3 and V2.1
CICS PA has dropped support for SMF records created by CICS TS V1.3 and V2.1. CICS PA V3.1 supports CICS TS V2.2 and later.
Documentation for the CICS PA plug-in for the CICS Explorer
The CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer provides step-by-step instructions on setting up CICS PA to work with the CICS Explorer.
CICS PA plug-in sample report forms and DB2 view definition
To create comma-separated value (CSV) files for use with the CICS PA plug-in for the CICS Explorer, use the sample summary report form EXPLORE3 (for CICS TS V3) or EXPLORE4 (for CICS TS V4). (EXPLORE3 was already included in CICS PA V2.1 via the PTF for APAR PK71846.)

To create a DB2 view for use with the CICS PA plug-in, use member CPAXPLRV of the CICS PA sample library (SCPASAMP).

For details, see The CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer.

HDB Register data set name on Control Data Sets panel
In addition to the other panels where you can specify this data set name, you can now specify the HDB Register data set name on the CICS PA Control Data Sets panel (CICS PA dialog option 0.3).
z/OS V1.10 users: apply fix for DFSORT APAR PK80962
Without this fix, DFSORT can produce system abend SA78-10 in CICS PA.
Terminology: "shared object lists" now "resource lists"
Shared object lists, previously also known as "HDB object lists", are now known as resource lists. Object lists, sometimes previously also known as "personal object lists", remain as object lists. For a comparison of these types of list, see Object Lists versus Resource Lists.