Using reports

The CICS® PA plug-in provides a wide range of reports using CICS® PA to help you tune and manage the performance of your CICS database, as well as plan capacity for future use. Using reports you can retrieve a sub-set of the data in your database in a graphical format, so you can see data trends in your system. If you want to view single transactions that might require your attention, see the Using Alerts topic.

Procedure

  1. In the Sheet view select the record that you want to run the report against.
  2. Click the Reports view The Reports tab.
  3. Right-click a report type and select Run. The report is run for the data in your database. You can restrict the data that the report displays by double-clicking the report type or right-clicking the report type and selecting Run using... from the menu. The Extract from Performance Summary dialog displays:
    The Extract from Performance Summary screen
    You can choose to display reports by start date and time, APPLID, or Transaction ID. The APPLID and Transaction ID are mandatory fields. The report interval is used to specify a date and time range or a time slot. From and To together specify the report interval. Date is either a calendar date in your preferred format or a relative date. Time is a time-of-day. For a date and time range:
    • Both From and To can be omitted to indicate that the range is open-ended.
    • If you do not specify a From value, the first input record is used as default.
    • If you do not specify a To value, the end of the file is used as default.