CICS Performance Monitor

IBM CICS® Performance Monitor for z/OS V1.2 is a real-time performance management, monitoring and troubleshooting tool for CICS Transaction Server for OS/390™ V1.3 and CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.2 and V2.3. CICS Performance Monitor enables you to:

• Manage user-defined thresholds and monitor their status

• Display detailed real-time performance data

• Make changes to key system and resource parameters to avoid down time

• Collect historical task data for improved problem determination

CICS Performance Monitor is built on the strength of the CICS systems management tradition and provides an intuitive modern tool to help meet your service level committments.

CICS Performance Monitor offers a variety of benefits:

• Improves availability and system integrity
  • Provides Single point of control for managing multiple CICS regions
  • Based on standard APIs and proven CICS TS system management technologies
• Helps reduce down time
  • Helps identify potential problems quickly with intuitive cross-system navigation
  • Enables immediate actions to avoid problems
• Increases flexibility of performance monitoring
  • Single System Image access to the data in multiple CICS regions
• Fast time-to-exploitation
  • Easy to install, set up, learn and use
  • Supports the latest release of CICS Transaction Server

The online performance monitoring functions provided by CICS PM are complemented by offline analysis provided by CICS Performance Analyzer. CICS PM and CICS PA, along with the existing system management functions of CICS Transaction Server, provide an effective solution for improving CICS systems performance.

CICS Performance Monitor requires:

• CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 V1.3
  or

• CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2