About Application Performance Analyzer Plug-ins for Eclipse

The Application Performance Analyzer Plug-in for Eclipse is a desktop version of the Application Performance Analyzer ISPF interface, which in addition to new features, provides a majority of parallel tools and functionality. It is used for submitting new observation requests, and for navigating the Performance Analysis Reports generated from observation requests. The Application Performance Analyzer Plug-in can be installed into existing Eclipse based desktop products such as RD/z, CICS Explorer, IMS Explorer and Eclipse.

The optional Application Performance Analyzer CICS Explorer Connection Plug-in for Eclipse provides an interface for the Application Performance Analyzer Plug-in to use the CICS Explorer connection framework to setup and launch the remote z/OS connection to Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS. As it provides this limited set of functionality, it must be installed into your Eclipse based desktop product along with the Application Performance Analyzer Plug-in.

The Application Performance Analyzer Plug-in communicates with Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS through an Application Performance Analyzer Listener started task on z/OS. The Application Performance Analyzer Listener must be installed, configured and active on z/OS before you can connect and use the Application Performance Analyzer Plug-in to access Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS.