Personal System Definitions overview

Use Personal System Definitions to define your CICS® (and other related) systems and their SMF files.

Before you can run reports using Personal System Definitions, you must first define the CICS and related systems that you want to report against. You can fast-track this process by using Take-up. Simply specify an SMF file that contains records from the systems that you want to report against, and CICS PA will create system definitions for you based on the records in that file.

To walk through an example of how to do this, see Example: Working with Personal Systems.

CICS PA uses your System Definitions when you:
  1. Run (submit) your report requests.

    At Report Set run time, CICS PA automatically generates JCL that includes:

    • Report requests for the CICS (and other related) systems that you select
    • DD statements for the required SMF files
  2. Create a new Report Form.

    The version of your CICS system determines which CMF fields are available for reporting and your MCT specification allows you to incorporate user fields into your reports.

  3. Create Cross-System Work Extract data sets.

    Your MCT specification allows you to incorporate user fields into your extracts.

System Definitions is a menu driven facility that allows you to:
  1. Define your CICS and associated DB2®, MQ and Logger Systems and define the Images (MVS™ systems) where they run
  2. Maintain the SMF files that contain data for these systems
  3. Define Groups that enable you to connect systems for consolidated reporting
  4. Use Take-up to populate your System Definitions from an SMF file

To access this facility, select option 1 Systems from the Primary Option Menu, and then select option 1 Personal Systems from the Systems menu. When first invoked, the System Definitions Menu is displayed as shown in Figure 1.