December 2010: CICS PA V3.2
CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS®, V3.2 includes the following features and changes:
- New CICS TS and CICS TG statistics data available through CICS Explorer®
- In addition to the current Explorer Summary table, the CICS PA
plug-in for CICS Explorer can
now source CICS Statistics
and Statistics Alerts data. The additional data is made available
through the following facilities:
- New fields in the HDB definition: Explorer, a flag to identify HDBs intended for the CICS PA plug-in, and Qualifier, used to associate related HDBs/DB2 tables.
- Use of a report set or the HDB Load dialog to load the required data into the associated HDBs and also to load the HDB updates into their associated DB2® tables.
- The manifest, which is a catalog of HDBs that are associated with a qualifier and for which the Explorer indicator is set.
- Capture statistics alerts in HDB
- CICS PA now
supports specifying an alert definition in the statistics HDB definition.
You select the required Statistics reports to be collected in this
HDB. When a CICS TS or CICS TG alert report is activated
to collect in this HDB, you can use a new line action called AO (Activate
Alert-only collection) to collect only the reports that related to
this Alert. "Alert only" reports are only collected if Alert
is triggered.
You can collect records that trigger alert conditions in the CICS TS and CICS TG Alert reports, or restrict existing reports to only those records which triggered alert conditions, or you can do both.
- Output batch reports as Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files
- The new z/OS UNIX utility sysout2pdf converts plain text batch reports generated by CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS into PDF files. You can write plug-in filters for sysout2pdf to manipulate the report contents, highlight text, or add PDF navigation features such as bookmarks. You can also use sysout2pdf to e-mail the PDF. See Using sysout2pdf to output batch reports as PDF.
- New publication: CICS PA Getting Started Guide, SC34-7453-00
- This is intended to help new users to understand the main CICS PA concepts and to become productive with the ISPF dialog interface and generating CICS PA reports.
- Support for CICS Transaction Gateway V8.0
- CICS PA supports SMF 111 records generated by CICS TG for z/OS V8.0, which is known by CICS PA as CICS TG VRM 800.
- Dropping support for CICS Transaction Server V2.2 and V2.3
- CICS PA has dropped support for SMF records created by CICS TS V2.2 and V2.3. CICS PA V3.2 supports CICS TS V3.1 and later. Historical data from CICS TS V2.2 systems is still supported.
CICS PA V3.2 includes all new features that were introduced in CICS PA V3.1 through service updates.