May 2009: CICS PA V3.1

CICSĀ® Performance Analyzer for z/OSĀ® V3.1 includes the following features and changes:

Statistics alert reporting
Statistics alert reportingStatistics alert reporting enables you to define conditions, in terms of CICS TS statistics or CICS TG statistics field values, that interest you. You can then use those conditions to report on statistics stored in SMF files or HDBs.
Support for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.1
All CICS PA reports, HDB, and the ISPF dialog support CICS Transaction Server V4.1, which is known by CICS PA as CICS TS Version 660.
Support for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.2
CICS PA support for CICS Transaction Gateway statistics (SMF type 111 records) has been enhanced to support CICS Transaction Gateway V7.2.
Dropping support for CICS TS V1.3 and V2.1
CICS PA has dropped support for SMF records created by CICS TS V1.3 and V2.1. CICS PA V3.1 supports CICS TS V2.2 and later.
CICS PA plug-in: documentation, sample report forms, and DB2 view definition
To create comma-separated value (CSV) files for use with the CICS PA plug-in for the CICS ExplorerTo create comma-separated value (CSV) files for use with the CICS PA plug-in for the CICS Explorer, use the sample summary report form EXPLORE3 (for CICS TS V3) or EXPLORE4 (for CICS TS V4).

To create a DB2 view for use with the CICS PA plug-in, use member CPAXPLRV of the CICS PA sample library (SCPASAMP).

Repository data set name on Control Data Sets panel
You can now specify the Repository data set name on the CICS PA Control Data Sets panel (CICS PA dialog option 0.3).
z/OS V1.10 users: apply fix for DFSORT APAR PK80962
Without this fix, DFSORT can produce system abend SA78-10 in CICS PA.
Terminology: "shared object lists" now "resource lists"
Shared object lists, previously also known as "HDB object lists", are now known as resource lists. Personal object lists remain as object lists. For a comparison, see Object lists versus resource lists.