The Monitoring Control Table (MCT)
The monitoring control table (MCT) is used to tell CICS®:
- The type of resource for which you want to collect transaction resource monitoring data. Available resource types are Files and Temporary Storage Queues (see DFHMCT TYPE=INITIAL).
- To enable application naming support, which makes available the CICS-generated DFHAPPL EMPs to your application programs (see DFHMCT TYPE=INITIAL).
- About any user event monitoring points (EMPs) that you have coded in your application programs and the data that is to be collected or manipulated at these points (see DFHMCT TYPE=EMP).
- That you want certain CICS system-defined performance class data fields to not be recorded by CICS (see DFHMCT TYPE=RECORD).
IMS™ DBCTL users can collect DBCTL statistics in the CMF performance class records by including the DFH$MCTD copy member in the MCT definition.
Full details of the MCT are provided in the CICS Resource Definition Guide. Examples of MCT coding are included with the programming information in the CICS Customization Guide.