CICS® PA produces a wide range of reports and extracts
on the performance of CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) that help
you to tune and manage performance, as well as plan capacity for future
use. You can filter which types of reports are displayed in the Reports
view.
You can use the following filters to display reports:
- Report category
- Statistics input column
- Report type
- To filter reports, click the View Menu (triangle icon) in the Reports tab:

Report category filter
You can use the Report
category filter to define which category of report is displayed. The
Report category filter correlates to any choices made in the Table
selection dialog. For example, if you only want to use the performance
summary table, select the transaction performance heading. If you
want to extract statistics tables for particular categories such as
Transactions and Programs related statistics, select these two categories.

Statistics input column filter
You can use the Statistics input column filter to define which columns in a table are displayed.
Each report uses a number of specific input fields to execute, and
these fields relate to individual data columns within a table linking
values from table to table. For example, a table which contains a
program name can link to another table which also has information
about a program name and if those programs are the same we have a
link. Some of the column resources described might be irrelevant in
a specific installation so the individual columns can be excluded
as report parameters. Consequently, reports based upon these are filtered
out of the Reports view.

Report type filter
You can use the Report type filter to define which type of
reports are displayed. There are four types of report:
- Ranging reports display data in a bar chart.
- Stat table link reports link one table
of data with another.
- Timeline reports display how a record has
changed over time.
- Detail reports display data in a pie chart.
