Region Overview workspace

The Region Overview workspace lets you review operations for every region of a CICSplex. You can analyze this data to detect system problems before they have a negative impact on your operations. For example, you can use the current number of VSAM buffer and string waits to determine if the file definitions in your CICS region are causing delays.

The predefined Region Overview workspace contains the following views:

  • Transaction Rate plot chart
  • Minimum Tasks Percent circular gauge
  • CICS® CPU Utilization circular gauge
  • CICS Region Overview table view

    The CICS Region Overview table view provides data on more than 30 items for evaluation. For example, it provides the following information:

    • The number of enqueues for a resource that also has tasks waiting for it
    • The number of total tasks within a region expressed as a percentage of their defined limits
    • The percent of CPU being used by CICS
    • The number of AIDs and ICEs
    • The maximum contiguous free space in the local system queue area (LSQA) and operating system core (OSCOR)
    • Storage violations
    • I/O rate and page rate per second
    • VTAM® access method control block (ACB)
    • The number of current VSAM file waits
    • The number of current VSAM buffer waits
    • The worst CICS region performance index value
    • The worst CICS region service class name

This workspace contains links to the following workspaces:

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