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Data Contents

Use the following steps to create the data contents for the CICS SMF feature:

1. Extract the necessary information from SMF data sets to a temporary file (Module APCCASDI).

   Excluded regions and/or transactions are eliminated in this stage.

   If the CICS SMF User Exit is used, define the correct input data set for DDname APCVARS and either change the definition of temporary file APC110O or add a step to copy the temporary data set.

2. Sort the temporary files by CICS system, transaction, and start time.
3. Process the sorted file and aggregate the detail information (Module APCCASSA).

   For every fixed interval of 15 minutes (00:00 to 00:15, 00:15 to 00:30, and so on), a record containing performance information is written to a temporary file. For every existing summary definition of a CICS region, an interval record with the name of the summary region is created.

4. Sort the temporary data set with interval data files by CICS system, start date, transaction, and start time.
5. Process the sorted interval file and create the records in the data set (APCCASSB).