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Using the Product in a CICS Environment

This chapter describes the types of delays that are specific to CICS. Use this chapter along with the tables in the chapter "Tuning Your Applications" to analyze the types of delays that are specific to a CICS environment. CA MAT is compatible with CICS TS 3.1 and later releases.

CA MAT detects the delays incurred by transactions and CICS tasks in this environment. The terms transactions and tasks define units of work within CICS. A transaction might comprise a single task or several tasks.

CICS is a transaction processing system that shares the resources of the region among many concurrently executing tasks. CICS management routines control the transaction’s access to all external and internal resources, such as files, databases, storage, programs, and special CICS facilities.

This section contains the following topics:

Support for CICS

Transaction Response Times

CICS Transaction Types

Analyze CICS Data

CICS Summary Statistics

Summary Statistics Panels

CICS Transaction Statistics

Transaction Statistics Panels

CICS Idle Time