Policies and CICS Performance Analyzer V3.2

You can use sample forms in CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS® V3.2 (CICS PA) to produce reports that you can use to identify suitable threshold values to set conditions in policies.

Typically the CICS PA reports list data by transaction identifier. The scope at which a policy is deployed determines whether a policy applies to an entire platform or to a specific application, and transactions associated with the application, instance.

The most suitable CICS PA sample forms for each currently supported policy rule type are listed here:
Table 1. Sample CICS PA forms for policies
Policy rule type Sample CICS PA form Title Description
Database request RMIDBSUM CICS RMI Analysis, DB2 Overview Provides details of DB2® requests issued and Resource Manager Interface elapsed and suspend time.
File request FCSUM File request activity Provides details of the different types of file requests issued.
Program request PCSUM Program request activity Provides details of the different types of program requests issued.
Storage  1  USTORSUM User (Task) Storage Analysis Provides details of 24-bit and 31-bit task storage usage.
Storage  1  SSTORSUM Shared Storage Analysis Provides details of 24-bit and 31-bit shared storage usage.
Storage request  1  USTORSUM User (Task) Storage Analysis Provides counts of 24-bit and 31-bit task storage usage.
Storage request  1  SSTORSUM Shared Storage Analysis Provides counts of 24-bit and 31-bit shared storage usage.
Time CPUSUM Transaction CPU Analysis Provides details of the CPU usage by transactions and the CPU time for the various CICS TCBs.
 1  No existing forms provide details or counts of 64-bit task or shared storage usage or requests. However, new forms USTG5SUM and SSTG5SUM are provided for this purpose, see Policies and CICS Performance Analyzer V5.1 for more information.