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Mainframe Transaction Trace Components Properties

The section describes the mainframe transaction trace components and properties the Cross-Enterprise APM agent generates for the mainframe transactions.

The transaction traces are built from standard performance information in the SMF records generated by CA SYSVIEW. The transaction traces consist of a series of components that help you diagnose problems. Each component has properties with names and values.

Some components are permanent and appear in every trace, while others are optional to reduce the size of the traces. These optional components appear in the trace only if they are in one of these two sets:

• The top ten longest non-zero duration components
• Components whose duration is greater than five percent of their parent component

CICS Transaction Tracing

Transactions that run on a CICS region that have been traced generate a minimum of one CICS transaction trace in the workstation. That transaction trace, the CICS Suspend/Dispatch transaction trace, contains suspend and dispatch timings. If any program participating in the transaction calls DB2, then a second transaction trace, the CICS DB2 transaction trace, is generated with DB2 timings.