These example tasks illustrate how you can set up and use CICS® PA plug-in to analyze
your CICS performance data.
Analyzing resource interactions using CICS IA plug-in
You can link directly from a Transaction ID in the CICS PA plug-in for the CICS Explorer® to CICS Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA) to analyze the relationship
between individual Transaction IDs and other resources.
Analyzing transaction CPU time
You can analyze the CPU time for one or more Transaction
IDs and display the output as a pie chart, a bar chart, or a timeline
chart.
Analyzing transaction file usage
You can analyze the file usage for one or more Transaction
IDs and display the output as a pie chart, a bar chart, or a timeline
chart.
Analyzing transaction response time
You can analyze the response time for one or more Transaction
IDs and display the output as a pie chart or a bar graph.
Analyzing transaction storage usage
You can analyze the storage usage for one or more Transaction
IDs and display the output as a pie chart, a bar chart or a timeline
chart.
Managing CSV data files
To obtain the best performance from the CICS PA plug-in, you can manage
your CSV data files in various ways.
Opening and closing projects
You can improve the performance of the CICS PA plug-in by closing
projects that you are not using.
Creating a CICS PA project
The most direct method of accessing your performance data
is by connecting directly to your PA database on the host, but you
can also view the data in a CSV file. The CSV file must be loaded
into a project in your workspace. Projects can contain both folders
and files.
Creating a folder
Folders are contained in projects. Folders can also contain
other folders and files.
Loading CSV data
You can load CSV data in the CICS PA plug-in in three ways.
Loading the sample CSV file
You can load the supplied sample CSV file to try out some
of the functions in the CICS PA plug-in.