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The Workload Activity report consists of a List report and a Summary report. For the List report, each line is printed from a single CMF performance class record. Records that are part of the same network unit-of-work are printed sequentially in groups, each group separated by a blank line. The printed information allows you to find the corresponding records in the Performance List report. The Summary report summarizes the information by Service Class and by Report Class.

The Workload Activity report is produced using an external SORT facility. An External Work Data Set is required to store the records before they are sorted. This data set is either specified explicitly using EXTERNAL(ddname), or CICS PA assigns one from the External Work File pool.

Note: If only the Summary report is requested, without EXE and without the List report, no external SORT is required.
The records are sorted in the following order:
  1. Network unit-of-work NETNAME
  2. Network unit-of-work ID
  3. Syncpoint count concatenated with either:
    • Task stop time in descending (reverse) order

      or

    • Task start time in ascending order

In the third sort field, the syncpoint count is used to resolve unsynchronized STORE CLOCK (STCK) values between systems. The syncpoint count and stop time (or start time) show the sequence of tasks within the network unit-of-work. In some cases (for example, where user event monitor points (EMPs) are used), the syncpoint count does not reflect the sequence of events within a network unit-of-work. For these instances, all the task records are printed, but not necessarily in the order they happened. You can tell that this situation exists if the stop times are not in descending order (or the start times are not in ascending order).

For more information on correlating the performance class data by network unit-of-work ID, see Correlating performance class data.