Extracts
While the other categories produce reports and graphs intended for human readers, the extracts produce data sets intended for use by software applications, including CICS PA itself.
- Cross-System Work
- This data set is useful for cross-system analysis. CICS PA allows you to merge CMF performance class data from segments of work performed by the same or different CICS® systems via transaction routing, function shipping, or distributed transaction processing on behalf of a single network unit-of-work ID. This Cross-System Work data set can be used as input to CICS PA Performance Reports such as the List, Summary, and Totals reports to monitor the total amount of resources used by a transaction within a single CICS system or across multiple CICS systems.
- Performance Data
- This data set contains a selected subset of CMF performance class data, extracted and formatted as a delimited text file. This file can then be imported into a DB2® database or PC spreadsheet application for further reporting and analysis. The extract records have a default format which includes all the clock fields, or the format can be tailored like the Performance List or Performance Summary reports.
- Record Selection
- This data set contains only the SMF record types that are of interest to you. You can extract any combination of the SMF record types supported by CICS PA. The extract file can then be used as input to CICS PA, allowing for more efficient reporting.
- HDB Load
- The HDB Load is a facility that loads SMF data into a Historical
Database (HDB). This same facility is available from Primary Menu
option 5 Historical Database, where the full set of HDB reporting
facilities is available. However, from Report Sets you have the advantages
of batch JCL generation and multiple load requests supported in the
one job. A Recap report containing processing statistics is always
printed at the end of load processing.
See HDB Load.
- System Logger
- This data set contains a selected subset of System Logger data, extracted and formatted as a delimited text file. This file can then be imported into a DB2 database or PC spreadsheet application for further reporting and analysis.
- Statistics
- This data set contains CICS statistics,
extracted and formatted as a delimited text file. This file can then
be imported into a DB2 database
or PC spreadsheet application for further reporting and analysis.
The format of the extract records depends on the CICS statistics ID of the extracted data: each
statistics ID defines its own set of fields.
See Statistics extract.