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Overview

The CICMTR query generates charts showing overall transaction counts and response time metrics, by month, for CICS regions. A separate chart is produced for each z/OS SYSID and CICS region combination. The charts show the total transaction count for each month using a stacked vertical bar—where the overall transaction count is broken down into two bar segments. One segment shows the transaction count that met a user-specified elapsed time goal using a blue bar (default one second), and the other segment shows the transaction count that missed the goal using a red bar.

In addition, the chart uses a horizontal line to show the percentage of transactions, per month, that met the response time goal (green line). A user-specified desired percentage (default 95 percent) is plotted (blue line) to allow for easy visualization of the actual percentage of transactions, compared to the desired percentage of transactions, that met the response time goal.

The example shows the chart generated for a CICS region "MROA" running on a z/OS system "ASYS". Merging with data from the HARCPU file was not able to determine the Central Processing Complex (CPC) ID, hence the CPC ID is ‘UNKNOWN.’ The chart shows that transaction volume decreased in November and December 2009, and increased significantly for the months January through March 2010, falling off again in April and May. The final month, June 2010, use cycle 00 of the CICCYS file, representing a partial month. Close to 100 percent of the transactions, each month, met the response time goal of completing in one second or less.

The second line of the title shows the response time target—and must be manually updated in the query output view definition if the response time value is changed from the default value of one (1) second.