1. OVERVIEW › 1.5 Product Prerequisites

1.5 Product Prerequisites

The CA MICS CICS Analyzer runs in MVS-based environments such
as OS/390 and Z/OS.  It supports the following data sources:


o  IBM's CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF), CTS 1.2 through
   CTS 3.2
 
   CICS CMF monitoring data is written out using the SMF 110
   record type with the following subtypes:
 
   0 - CICS journaling
   1 - CICS monitoring
   2 - CICS statistics
   3 - Shared temporary storage queue server
   4 - Coupling facility data table server statistics
   5 - Named counter sequence number server statistics
 
   The CA MICS Analyzer Option for CICS uses only the subtype
   1 and 2 records at this time. Subtypes 0, 3, 4 and 5 are
   not used currently.
 
   Within the different subtypes, there are one or more
   classes of data produced, depending on the requirements.
   The classes of data within the CICS monitoring record
   (subtype 1) currently available are:
 
   1 - Dictionary data
   2 - unused
   3 - Performance data
   4 - Exception data
   5 - Transaction Resource data
 
   The primary input is the subtype 1 (monitoring) record,
   class 1, dictionary data and class 3, performance data
   Processing for the exception data (class 4) is optional.
 
o  CICS Statistics Records
 
   For all supported releases, the CA MICS Analyzer Option
   for CICS processes selected CICS statistics written to SMF
   type 110, subtype 1, class 1 record.
 
   For CTS 1.3, statistics record types 2, 6, 10, 27, 45, 48,
   and 55 are processed.  For CTS 2.1 and above, statistic
   record types 2, 6, 10, 27, 45, 48, and 60 are processed.
 
o  ASG-TMON for CICS TS (TCE) through Release 3.2
 
   The CA MICS Analyzer Option for CICS provides support for
   the Region Interval (TR) record in addition to Transaction
   Performance activity (TA) and Transaction Performance
   History interval (TI) records.
o  CMF type 110 look-alike records
 
   CMF type 110 look-alike records produced by products such
   as OMEGAMON are also supported, to the extent they are
   compatible with IBM's CMF data at a given CICS release
   level.  Currently, the CA MICS Analyzer Option for CICS
   supports DBCTL for IMS usage reporting and OMEGAMON for
   general performance reporting only.  If additional data
   elements are introduced, then these elements must be
   defined within the $CICGENIN member and an appropriate
   exit must be used to process the input data.  See section
   10.1.15 for details.
o  CICS Transaction Gateway SMF type 111 records
 
   SMF type 111 interval records produced by IBM's CICS
   Transaction Gateway Release 7.1 and above.