System selection
System Selection specifies the systems (CICS® APPLIDs, DB2® SSIDs, MQ SSIDs and System Logger systems) to be reported by the Report Set. CICS PA matches these specifications with your System Definitions and constructs the DD statements for the required SMF Files.
The System Selection can be specified:
- In each report within the Report Set. This specification applies to this report only.
- In the Global Options of the Report Set. This specification applies to all reports in the Report Set that do not have their own System Selection.
- At run time. This overrides the Global Option and optionally the report-level specification.
The System Selection specification consists of three parts:
- System name
- The name of the system to be reported. When System name is specified, Image and Group are only use to further qualify the system. For example, report CICS system CICSP1 that runs on Image MVS1, not the one that runs on Image MVS2.
- Image
- The MVS™ Image where the system(s) to be reported run. When specified on its own (without a System name), then all Systems running on the Image are reported. For example, report all CICS systems that run on Image MVS1.
- Group
- The group of systems to be reported. When specified without System name, then all Systems defined to the Group are reported as a consolidated group. For example, report all Production MRO CICS systems.
The following sections explain how CICS PA interprets the various System Selections and which SMF files (defined in your System Definitions) are used to process the report requests.