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IBM® CICS® Performance Analyzer for z/OS V3.1 is a powerful off-line reporting tool to help you develop, tune, and manage your CICS systems.

Addresses the needs of everyone involved in CICS performance analysis, system tuning, and planning capacity, including those who architect, develop, deploy, and manage complex mainframe CICS applications
Comprehensive performance reporting and analysis for CICS, including use of DB2, WebSphere MQ, IMS, and z/OS System Logger, help you evaluate CICS system efficiency, eliminate system bottlenecks and proactively tune system performance.
New! CICS Transaction Server V4.1 support including additional sample reports, historical database (HDB), and updated ISPF dialogs supporting the new metrics and statistics provided by CICS TS V4.1.
New! Statistics alert reporting automates the generation of batch reports that highlight occasions when key CICS statistics exceed specified thresholds.
New! Support for resource signatures (new in CICS TS V4.1) can be used to indicate changes to resource definitions, for audit, tracking, or problem resolution purposes.
New! CICS Explorer plug-in enhanced and now fully supported delivers intuitive access to performance information to a broader set of users
Enhanced! Support for CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS V7.2 gives you an even broader understanding of CICS system performance.
Enhanced! Over 180 sample reports with easy-to-use ISPF dialog to build, maintain, and submit reports.
Historical Database (HDB) provides a flexible and easy-to-use facility for collecting and managing historical performance data for your CICS system enables trend analysis and capacity planning
Transaction Profiling identifies changes in application performance over time and Distribution reporting helps service-level management team identify out of line transactions.
Integration with OMEGAMON XE for CICS provides insight into 3rd-party database usage
Contribute to key Service Management processes such as Capacity Management, Service Level Management, and Problem Management
Operating system(s): CICS PA runs on z/OS.
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Accelerate deployment of new CICS workloads on System z and streamline your CICS migration efforts.
Enhance your CICS applications and support your business and IT objectives
Supporting development and testing of SOA applications on System z and CICS
Extend your CICS applications to a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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CICS Performance Analyzer complements OMEGAMON® XE for CICS® to provide a comprehensive performance management solution for CICS
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Our structured approach delivers better governance and value to your entire business.
