IBM CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS V2.1 is a powerful off-line reporting tool that analyzes the System Management Facilities (SMF) records created by the CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF), CICS Statistics, CICS Server Statistics, as well as SMF data from the related subsystems (DB2 and WebSphere® MQ®), to produce a wide range of reports and extracts that will help you tune and manage your CICS systems.
CICS Performance Analyzer also provides z/OS system logger reports using the system logger data.
CICS Performance Analyzer is built to address the needs of everyone involved in CICS performance analysis, and CICS system tuning and planning capacity for future use, including those who build, manage, and deploy complex mainframe CICS applications.
CICS Performance Analyzer can contribute to key processes within an overall Service Management initiative. For example, when used as part of the Capacity Management process, CICS Performance Analyzer can provide the detailed performance information required to understand the impact of, and plan IT capacity for, new CICS-based workloads, e.g. when implementing SOA and Web services. CICS Performance Analyzer can also support your Service Level Management process and highlight performance issues or growth trends to reduce the risk of future system outages.
CICS Performance Analyzer can help:
- Improve CICS system resource usage
- Evaluate the effects of CICS system tuning efforts
- Improve transaction response times
- Analyze CICS application performance
- Provide ongoing system management and measurement reports
- Increase availability of resources
- Increase the productivity of system and application programmers
- Provide awareness of usage trends, assisting in future growth estimates
CICS Performance Analyzer complements IBM Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for CICS® on z/OS® by helping you to respond quickly to online performance issues by drilling down deeply into CICS performance data to identify the cause of the problem. When used in conjunction with OMEGAMON XE for CICS, you can create CICS Performance Analyzer reports that detail your application's use of Adabas, CA-Datacom, SUPRA, CA-IDMS, as well as reporting on those transactions that have exceeded OMEGAMON XE for CICS resource-limiting thresholds.
CICS Performance Analyzer also complements the enterprise-wide historical performance capabilities of IBM Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS with the additional deep and detailed CICS-related performance data, which can be used for focused CICS performance problem determination, bottleneck analysis, tuning and capacity planning.
New in CICS Performance Analyzer V2.1
- Significant enhancements to support new features in CICS Transaction Server V3.2 help you to keep up to date with CICS TS migration. Support includes compressed System Management Facilities (SMF) type 110 records, higher precision (12-byte) clock fields, plus new and updated statistics fields and records.
- Simplified and extended integration with OMEGANON XE for CICS allows CICS Performance Analyzer to process SMF type 112 records containing third-party database management systems, and OMEGANON XE for CICS resource-limiting metrics can give you better insight into all of your CICS data resources.
- New transaction profiling reports enable you to identify changes in application performance behavior, over time, to help you understand the impact on transaction performance and manage your CICS system capacity.
- New distribution reports allow you to identify the transactions which met (or failed to meet) user-defined thresholds that can support your service-level management process.
- New and updated sample report forms can be used to help get you started quickly.
- A range of additional enhancements previously delivered via the service channel, user requirements, and other minor enhancements have been incorporated.
- New support for CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS V7.1 gives you an even broader understanding of CICS system performance.
