Type: Offline analysis/reporting

What it does:

• Analyzes SMF records from CICS monitoring
• Produces detailed reports (transaction, wait time, resource usage)

Key reports include:

• Performance List / Summary
• Wait Analysis (find bottlenecks)
• Transaction Profiling
• Workload Activity

👉 Think: “What happened and why?”

Components:

• CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF)
• CICS statistics
• CICS trace

These generate the raw performance data used by tools like PA.

Core capability for baseline performance tuning.

👉 Think: “Raw data collection layer”

• RMF (Resource Measurement Facility)
• SMF (System Management Facility)
• z/OS Workload Manager (WLM)

Used alongside CICS to:

• Measure CPU, I/O, memory
• Correlate system-level performance with CICS workloads

👉 Think: “System-wide performance context”

• CA Sysview for CICS (Broadcom)
• BMC MainView for CICS
• IBM Z APM Connect

These add:

• Dashboards
• Cross-system correlation
• Automation

CICS (CMF + stats + trace)
        ↓
SMF records (z/OS)
        ↓
CICS Performance Analyzer (history/reporting)
        ↓
OMEGAMON (real-time monitoring + alerts)
        ↓
RMF/WLM (system-level correlation)

• OMEGAMON = live monitoring
• CICS PA = deep analysis
• CMF/statistics = raw data
• RMF/WLM = system correlation