December 2015: CICS PA V5.3
CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS®, V5.3 includes the following features and changes:
- CICS statistics summary batch reporting
- A new form-based statistics summary report provides information regarding the performance of CICS TS and CICS TG systems and resources. You can use this feature to create cross-domain reports or run summary reports from a Statistics HDB. Statistics summary reports use alerts to filter statistics records.
- Statistics list reporting
changes
- To be consistent with other types of report, statistics list forms are now saved in a forms data
set rather than in a repository, and forms generate a single report rather than multiple reports,
making it easier to manage the reports. The STATISTICSLIST command now uses the FIELDS operand,
rather than the FORM operand, to specify the fields to include. If you want to use statistics list
forms that you have created in the repository, you can migrate them to the forms data set using the
migration facility in option 8.6.
- Sample form search
- A new Sample Form Search panel provides a way for you to quickly find forms that match your performance problem or your reporting scenario.
- LISTX sorting changes
- For LISTX reports, the three-field sort order limitation has been removed. The command format of
the LISTX command has changed to use the FIELDS operand rather than BY for sorting, and to use the
CROSSSYSTEM operand, instead of the BY(UOW) operand, for the cross-system work extended report. You
are encouraged to use the new format, although for backward compatibility with existing reports, you
can continue to use the BY operand.
- SUMMARY(BY operand no longer supported
- In JCL, the SUMMARY(BY operand is no longer supported; use the SUMMARY(FIELDS operand instead. To update any existing JCL that includes SUMMARY(BY, either
regenerate the job using the CICS PA V5.3
dialog, or edit the JCL manually.
- Sample report sets
- You can now install several sample report sets in CICS PA to help you investigate various problem scenarios.
- Improved process for upgrading CICS PA DB2® tables between CICS releases
- Enhanced HDB Export function allows performance and statistics data in DB2 table definitions to be updated, and existing table data to be easily migrated to the upgraded tables.
- Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.3
- CICS PA supports SMF 110 records created by CICS TS V5.3.
CICS PA V5.3 includes all new features that were introduced in CICS PA V5.2 through service updates. For details, see Previous changes.