The CICS PA plug-in for CICS Explorer
The CICS® PA plug-in for CICS Explorer® (CICS PA plug-in) is an Eclipse plug-in that integrates with the IBM® CICS Explorer to help you analyze CICS data, including the Performance Summary and Performance Alert reports and CICS PA Statistics and Statistics Alerts reports.
Using the CICS PA
plug-in, you can
perform the following tasks:
- For performance data:
- View and sort the CSV or database data in a spreadsheet viewer.
- Select single or multiple transactions for analysis.
- View CICS performance alert reports and navigate to specific records.
- View graphical details of transaction performance metrics, including response time, suspend time, CPU time, file usage, and storage usage.
- For statistics data:
- View interval-based graphical charts showing multiple system metrics including storage and transaction response.
- View CICS statistics alert reports and navigate to specific records.
For more information about the IBM CICS Explorer, see http://www.ibm.com/cics/explorer.
The procedure that follows describes how to use CICS PA to get data from an SMF data set into a DB2® table or CSV file for use by the CICS PA plug-in.
The step-by-step procedure presented here shows you how to:
- Define a performance HDB, optionally including performance alert data.
- Define a statistics HDB, optionally including statistics alert data.
- Build the manifest. (This step is only required if the data is to be exported to DB2.)
- Load the HDB.
- Export data:
- To a DB2 table.
- To a CSV file (Performance HDB only).
- Access the data using the CICS PA plug-in.
While this procedure describes each step in detail, with enough information to move on to the next step, many of the steps are described individually in more detail in other parts of this book.
Migration note: As Performance
(CMF) and Statistics fields are added to or deleted from CICS TS, you might need to redefine and reload DB2 tables to make them compatible
with the new CICS TS version.
See Upgrade DB2 tables.