When you use the CICS® PA plug-in, you can analyze CMF performance data that has been extracted
and formatted as a CSV file using CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS®. You must not edit or change the CSV data in any way otherwise
errors are likely to occur. You can view data that you have extracted
in the past, however, if you want to see new data from version 3.2
you must extract it from the PA host database.
About this task
The first time you click a CSV file in the Project Explorer
view, the
CICS PA plug-in performs an analysis of the data. The analysis might take a few
seconds to complete. When the analysis is complete, a
plus icon
(an arrow on Linux) displays
next to the file. Clicking the icon, and subsequent icons, expands
the file and displays the file contents in the following cascading
order:
- Start date
- Start time
- APPLID
- Transaction ID
In the following screen capture, the file
sample.CSV in the folder Old CSV files contains data summarized by start date
and time, and using various time intervals. The start time 03:30:00.000
contains an APPLID, APOC3C1, containing two transaction IDs.
You can select a sub-set
of data and copy it from CICS PA and paste it into a spreadsheet application:
Procedure
- Right-click the records that you want to use and select Sheet view from the context menu. A new tab
opens displaying the records you have chosen.
- Copy the records.
- Open your spreadsheet application and paste the records
into it. The data is displayed in the spreadsheet application.
Example
In the Project Explorer view you can select a single Transaction
ID, multiple Transaction IDs, a single time period, multiple time
periods, a single date period, multiple date periods, or any combination.
As you make your selection, the spreadsheet view is updated. See
The Sheet view topic for more information.