IBM Tools : CICS Performance Analyser V1.2 / [Eugene Deborin ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deborin, Eugene.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

CICS (Computer system).

Teleprocessing monitors (Computer programs).

Systems programming (Computer science).

IBM software.

Physical Description:

xxii, 412 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Research Triangle Park, NC : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Part 1 Product overview

Chapter 1. CICS performance management

1.1 How to approach CICS performance monitoring and tuning

1.2 CICS tools

1.2.1 CICS Performance Analyzer

1.2.2 CICS Performance Monitor

1.2.3 CICS Performance Analyzer and CICS Performance Monitor benefits

1.2.4 CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer

1.2.5 CICS Interdependency Analyzer

1.3 Data used by CICS Performance Analyzer

1.3.1 CICS Monitoring Facility data (SMF 110 records)

1.3.2 DB2 Accounting data (SMF 101 records)

1.3.3 MVS System Logger data (SMF 88 records)

1.4 Other relevant CICS data and utilities

1.4.1 CICS statistics

1.4.2 The sample statistics program DFH0STAT

1.4.3 Statistics utility program: DFHSTUP

1.4.4 Monitoring dictionary utility program DFHMNDUP

1.4.5 Sample monitoring data print program: DFHMOLS

1.4.6 Journal utility program: DFHJUP

1.5 Other relevant information sources

1.5.1 System Management Facility

1.5.2 Resource Management Facility

1.5.3 Generalized Trace Facility

1.5.4 Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390

Chapter 2. A guided tour of CICS PA

2.1 What is CICS PA?

2.1.1 The CICS PA dialog

2.1.2 The CICS PA reports and extracts

2.1.3 The CICS PA commands

2.2 Preparing the SMF data for CICS PA

2.3 Invoking CICS PA

2.4 CICS PA Primary Option Menu

2.5 Profile settings

2.6 Maintaining system definitions

2.6.1 System Definitions Menu

2.6.2 Take-Up

2.6.3 System Definitions

2.6.4 CICS System

2.6.5 SMF Files for this System

2.6.6 Groups this System belongs to

2.6.7 Using masking for system names

2.6.8 Reporting undefined system names

2.6.9 MVS Image

2.6.10 DB2 Subsystem.

2.6.11 MVS System Logger

2.6.12 Maintaining SMF Files

2.6.13 Maintaining Groups

2.7 Requesting reports and extracts

2.7.1 Creating the Report Sets data set

2.7.2 Report Sets

2.7.3 Editing the Report Set

2.7.4 Specifying global options

2.7.5 Specifying report options

2.7.6 Reports list

2.7.7 Active reports

2.8 Submitting the Report Set

2.8.1 Run Report Set

2.8.2 JCL generation

2.9 Viewing the report output

2.10 Tailoring Report Formats

2.10.1 Creating the Report Forms data set

2.10.2 Report Form types

2.10.3 Report Forms list

2.10.4 Sample Report Forms

2.10.5 Edit Report Form

2.10.6 New Report Form

2.10.7 Using the Report Form in your report

2.11 Filtering the report

2.11.1 Selection Criteria

2.11.2 Run Report Set

2.11.3 JCL generation

2.12 Maintaining Object Lists

2.12.1 Creating the Object Lists data set

2.12.2 Object Lists

2.12.3 Edit Object List

2.12.4 Using the Object List in your Selection Criteria

Chapter 3. Reports and extracts

3.1 Report Set

3.1.1 Global Options

3.1.2 Performance Selection Criteria (global)

3.1.3 Exception Selection Criteria (global)

3.2 Performance reports

3.2.1 Performance List report

3.2.2 Performance List Extended report

3.2.3 Performance Summary report

3.2.4 Performance Totals report

3.2.5 Cross-System Work report

3.2.6 Transaction Group report

3.2.7 BTS report

3.2.8 Workload Activity report

3.2.9 DB2 report

3.2.10 System Logger report

3.2.11 Transaction Resource Usage report

3.3 Exception reports

3.3.1 Exception List report

3.3.2 Exception Summary report

3.4 Performance Graph reports

3.4.1 Transaction Rate Graph report

3.4.2 Transaction Response Time Graph report

3.5 Performance extracts

3.5.1 Cross-System Work extract

3.5.2 Export extract.

3.5.3 Record Selection extract

3.6 Popular mix

Chapter 4. Processing extracts

4.1 Processing extracts with DB2

4.1.1 Export performance extracts

4.1.2 Loading DB2 tables with exported data

4.2 Processing extracts with Lotus 1-2-3

4.2.1 Export performance extracts

4.2.2 Import extracted data to Lotus 1-2-3

4.3 Processing extracts with Microsoft Excel

4.3.1 Export performance extract

4.3.2 Import extracted data into Microsoft Excel

4.4 Processing extracts with Microsoft Access

4.4.1 Export performance extract

4.4.2 Import extracted data into Microsoft Access

Part 2 CICS PA in action

Chapter 5. System setup and scenario overview

5.1 CICS region setup

5.1.1 Configuration for traditional workloads

5.1.2 Configuration for Enterprise JavaBean workloads

5.1.3 CICS Web Support and 3270 Bridge setup

5.1.4 CICS Transaction Gateway setup

5.2 Scenarios

5.2.1 VSAM application performance analysis and Transaction Resource Monitoring support

5.2.2 Tuning the CICS-DB2 attachment facility

5.2.3 CICS use of MVS System Logger

5.2.4 CICS access through CICS Transaction Gateway

5.2.5 CICS Web Support and 3270 Bridge

5.2.6 Java applications in CICS

5.2.7 Enterprise JavaBeans in CICS

5.2.8 Application Naming support

5.2.9 CALL and LINK performance

5.2.10 Exception reporting

5.2.11 Analyzing overall CICS system performance

Chapter 6. VSAM application performance analysis and Transaction Resource Monitoring support

6.1 CICS VSAM interface

6.2 CICS VSAM RLS scenario description

6.2.1 RLS workload generation

6.2.2 Performance objectives

6.3 Running the VSAM RLS scenario

6.3.1 Updating system definitions

6.3.2 Creating a Summary Report Form

6.3.3 Creating an Object List

6.3.4 Creating a Report Set

6.4 CICS VSAM LSR scenario description.

6.5 Running the VSAM LSR scenario

6.5.1 LSR workload generation

6.5.2 LSR application performance objectives

6.5.3 Analyzing the current average response time

6.5.4 Tuning changes to LSR

6.5.5 Analyzing results

6.6 Application performance RLS versus LSR

6.7 Transaction Resource Monitoring

6.8 Conclusion

Chapter 7. Tuning the CICS DB2 attachment facility

7.1 CICS and DB2

7.1.1 Overview of the CICS DB2 Attachment Facility

7.1.2 Functions

7.1.3 CICS and DB2 connectivity

7.2 CICS DB2 accounting and monitoring

7.3 CICS PA reporting CICS DB2 Attachment Facility

7.4 CICS PA example reports

7.5 CICS TS V1.3 and DB2 V7 scenario

7.6 CICS TS V2.2 and DB2 V7 scenario

7.7 Extract CICS DB2 records

7.8 Conclusion

Chapter 8. CICS and MVS System Logger

8.1 CICS TS and the MVS System Logger

8.2 CICS PA reporting on the System Logger

8.3 Scenario description

8.4 Scenario run

8.5 Conclusion

Chapter 9. Scenarios with CICS Transaction Gateway

9.1 What is CICS Transaction Gateway

9.1.1 Gateway components and downstream protocols

9.1.2 Application Programming Interfaces and upstream protocols

9.2 Scenario description

9.2.1 Front-end application

9.2.2 Back-end application

9.2.3 CTG for z/OS EXCI scenario

9.2.4 Distributed CTG using ECI over TCP/IP

9.3 Scenario run

9.3.1 Running the workload using the CTG for z/OS

9.3.2 Running the workload using the distributed CTG

9.4 Conclusion

Chapter 10. CICS Web Support and 3270 Bridge

10.1 CWS overview

10.2 Scenario description

10.3 Scenario run

10.4 Tuning your CWS environment

10.4.1 Storage consumption by CWXN

10.4.2 Conclusion

Chapter 11. Java applications in CICS

11.1 CICS and Java

11.1.1 Java language programs in CICS

11.1.2 Stateless CORBA objects

11.1.3 Enterprise JavaBeans.

11.2 Scenario description

11.3 Measuring JVM performance

11.3.1 Xresettable=NO

11.3.2 Xresettable=YES

11.3.3 Using the shareable application classpath

11.3.4 Conclusion

Chapter 12. Enterprise JavaBeans in CICS

12.1 CICS logical EJB server configuration

12.2 Single thread enterprise bean scenario

12.2.1 CICS TS V2.2 JDBC/SQLJ support

12.2.2 Initiating transaction workload

12.3 Multithread enterprise bean scenario

12.3.1 Workload generation

12.3.2 Objectives

12.3.3 Running the SQLJ workload

12.3.4 Running the JDBC workload

12.3.5 Running the JCICS (VSAM) workload

12.4 Conclusion

Chapter 13. Application Naming support

13.1 Application Naming support

13.1.1 Implementation of Application Naming support

13.1.2 Application Naming sample

Chapter 14. CALL and LINK performance

14.1 Performance testing

14.1.1 What is CBLPSHPOP?

14.1.2 CLER transaction

14.1.3 MCT - Monitor Control Table

14.1.4 RUWAPOOL SIT option

14.2 Scenario description

14.3 Measuring CALL performance

14.3.1 Sample MCT

14.3.2 First run - program description

14.3.3 Executed scenario

14.3.4 Performance list report generation

14.3.5 Data export

14.3.6 Second run

14.4 Measuring the EXEC CICS LINK command performance

14.4.1 Program description

14.4.2 Executed scenario

14.4.3 LINK transaction characteristics

14.4.4 LINK performance

14.5 Conclusion

Chapter 15. Exception reporting

15.1 Exception Class records

15.2 Using CICS Performance Analyzer to produce exception reports

Chapter 16. Analyzing overall system performance

16.1 Making a subset of CMF performance records

16.2 Working with different CICS system releases

16.3 Looking at overall system performance

16.3.1 Performance Totals report

16.3.2 Performance Summary report.

16.3.3 Performance List Extended report.

Notes:

""January 2003."

"SG24-6882-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

932363929