Filtering reports

CICS® PA produces a wide range of reports and extracts on the performance of CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) that help you to tune and manage performance, as well as plan capacity for future use. You can filter which types of reports are displayed in the Reports view.

You can use the following filters to display reports:
  • Report category
  • Statistics input column
  • Report type
To filter reports, click the View Menu in the Reports tab:
The reports filter menu

Report category filter

You can use the Report category filter to define which category of report is displayed. The Report category filter correlates to any choices made in the Table selection dialog. For example, if you only want to use the performance summary table, select the transaction performance heading. If you want to extract statistics tables for particular categories such as Transactions and Programs related statistics, select these two categories.

The Data category filter screen

Statistics input column filter

You can use the Statistics input column filter to define which columns in a table are displayed. Each report uses a number of specific input fields to execute, and these fields relate to individual data columns within a table linking values from table to table. For example, a table which contains a program name can link to another table which also has information about a program name and if those programs are the same we have a link. Some of the column resources described might be irrelevant in a specific installation so the individual columns can be excluded as report parameters. Consequently, reports based upon these are filtered out of the Reports view.

The Input resource filter screen

Report type filter

You can use the Report type filter to define which type of reports are displayed. There are four types of report:

The Report type filter screen