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Option for CICS

The CA SYSVIEW Option for CICS monitors all supported releases of CICS. The CICS displays show:

• Status information, including:
  • Active and suspended tasks: transactions running on the system
  • Degradation wait analysis: where transactions have been spending most of their time, which provides a bottleneck analysis
  • CICS domains
  • Dump statistics
  • Enqueues and enqueue pools
  • Automatic initiate descriptors (AIDS)
  • Interval control elements (ICE)
• Storage information, including:
  • Dynamic Storage Areas (DSAs)

    Contains extents, subpools, and elements.

  • Subspace areas

    Provides transaction isolation. The display shows who is using which subspaces.

  • Temporary storage, such as CSA

    Is often overlooked after allocation.

• Information about the following CICS resources:
  • Global user exits
  • Files
  • Journals/logs
  • Kernel tasks
  • LSR pools
  • Programs
  • System Initialization Tables
  • MRO/ISC links
  • Transaction classes
  • Transient data
  • Terminals
  • Timers
  • Transactions
  • VSAM files
• Historical data, in the following forms:
  • System interval analysis, which shows the CICS region as a whole
  • Detailed transaction log, which includes each transaction
  • Transaction interval summary
  • Exception log, which shows CICS exceptions and alerts generated by CA SYSVIEW

  CA SYSVIEW also logs historical performance records to SMF.