1. Manage CICS Eco System using CICS Tools V5.1
Joe Gailey

2. CICS Explorer helps to reduce development and admin skills
Problem
Need to bring CICS technical staff who are new to System z up to speed and productive quickly and avoid the ISPF learning curve and context switching issues
With the CICS Explorer you’ll be able to create task-oriented views to provide integrated access to a broad range of data and control capabilities. Your experts will be more productive and those new to CICS will be more immediately effective.
Feedback from customers, business partners, and analysts who have seen early versions of the Explorer has been very positive. Now, you can try it for yourself! Today!
I encourage you to download the CICS Explorer. Try it, with CICS TS and CPSM, or with one or more of the CICS Tools. Or both. If you are not currently using them, you can download trial versions of CICS IA, CICS PA, or CICS CM, and try them out with the CICS Explorer. We’d like you to share your feedback with us and with other users on our new CICS Explorer Forum - tell us what you like and what you don’t. We’d also like to hear what your priorities fow what we should do next. And, if you have problems, you can ask for help.
Solution
Intuitive navigation and revolutionary integration not only simplifies access to CICS development, administrative, and operations tools, but also enables users to view and edit zOS Datasets, PDS members, and zFS files, and edit and submit JCL, view output and job logs, etc
Value
Experts get the job done faster
New hires more quickly effective
Strategic Interface for CICS

3. ibm.com/cics/explorer
IBM CICS Explorer® V
Configuration
Status
Control, Test MQ
Status
Situations
Topology XE
Manage
IMS …
IMS Explorer
Session and user views, Configuration, Broadcast, User and Admin commands
ISM
Daemon & Connection
Status & Test TG
Manipulate, browse
z/OS data sets, z/FS,
VSAM, MQ, CICS, DB2 FM
CICS, IMS, DB2,
& z/OS
Abend Reporting
& Diagnosis FA
Develop
Test
RDz
Threadsafe, File, CPU,
Response & Wait analysis, Statistics, Alerts, Graphical and
Sheet views PA
CICS, IMS,
DB2, & z/OS
Application
Debugging DT
CICS, IMS, DB2, & z/OS
Observation Requests
& Reporting
APA
Deployment,
Discovery,
Visualization, Cloning,
Automation & Control DA
3270 application
performance
testing
WSIM CM
CRUD, Install, History, Backout, Audit, Search, Compare, Packaging
Execution Tree
Dependencies
Queries
Command Flow IA SM
CRUD, Install, Control,
Filter, Sort, Topology,
Events, ATOM, Java, WLM,
Txn Tracking, Copy/Paste
ibm.com/cics
ibm.com/cics/tools
ibm.com/cics/explorer SM IA PA CM DA TG
ISM
CICS Transaction Server
CICS Interdependency Analyzer
CICS Performance Analyzer
CICS Configuration Manager
CICS Deployment Assistant
CICS Transaction Gateway
IBM Session Manager
CRUD - Create / Read / Update / Delete
TEMS - Tivoli Enterprise Management Server
APA FA DT FM
WSIM
Application Performance Analyzer
Fault Analyzer
Debug Tool
File Manager
Workload Simulator MQ
WebSphere MQ XE
OMEGAMON XE for CICS
RDz
Rational Developer for System z
z/OS Explorer
z/OS Connections,
z/OS Datsasets,
zFS files, JES
CICS TS, IMS,
DB2, MQ, z/OS

4. Five core CICS Tools – Day one CICS TS V5.1 exploitation
Fully integrated with CICS TS & CICS Explorer
CICS Deployment Assistant
V5.1
CICS Transaction Server
CICS Configuration Manager
CICS Interdependency Analyzer
CICS Performance Analyzer
CICS VSAM Recovery
Discovery and visualization aids insight into application and platform dependencies
Automation speeds service delivery and ensures standardization and governance
Modern, integrated user interfaces lower skills barrier
Day-1 exploitation of CICS TS V5.1 new capabilities reduces time to value
Five core tools support and extend the CICS runtime
CICS Explorer V5.1
CICS Explorer, the strategic management interface for CICS TS, is upgraded to CICS Explorer V5.1. This is a major update to support the latest CICS TS and CICS tools capabilities. CICS Explorer V5.1 includes significant new capability to support all relevant aspects of CICS TS V5.1. Some CICS TS V5.1 capabilities, such as applications, platforms and policies, require the CICS Explorer for creation and deployment. CICS Explorer V5.1 will also work with other supported versions of CICS TS.
Core foundational CICS tools
IBM has also updated the five core foundational CICS tools to exploit and augment the latest operational efficiency and service agility enhancements in CICS TS V5.1. These tools are:
CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS V5.1
CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS V5.1 supports the creation and migration of application and platform resources.
CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS V5.1
CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS V5.1 delivers discovery, visualization, and provisioning services for CICS TS. Upgrade wizards are provided to accelerate the move to CICS TS V5.1. CICSPlex SM provisioning wizards can speed the adoption of CICSPlex SM.
CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.1 provides application discovery and dependency analysis. This includes support for the creation and analysis of applications defined using the new CICS TS V5.1 application resource.
CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.1 can analyze and report on the performance of applications and platforms defined using the new CICS TS V5.1 application and platform resources. It can also assist in the establishment of policies for applications and platforms.
CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS V5.1 complements the replication logging with CICS TS V5.1 with support for batch replication logging. This capability is in support of the IBM GDPS/AA availability solution, which IBM intends to enhance to include support for replication of VSAM data for active-standby and active-query configurations. For more information, refer to the Statement of direction section. 4 4 4

5. CICS PROVISIONING CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS
What is it?
A tool to help provision the CICS Environment, providing discovery and visualization features that provide insight into the overall CICS Eco-system.
What’s its value?
Topology Visualization
Simplify tasks, save time, and reduce risk
Automate many complex provisioning activities
Significantly reduce the time required to validate CICS topology
How does it enhance the management of CICS?
Discovery and Modelling of CICS systems and applications
Deployment perspective integrates with CICS Explorer Advanced Topology Visualization
Automated creation, deployment, customization, and control of CICS regions
Edit files, submit JCL, view output
Why is this tool important?
Improved speed to market
Reduced chance of failure
Controlled, governed deployment
Optimize hardware resources
Plan for mergers and acquisitions
Help with understanding applications
Reduce ongoing life cycle costs for managing new CICS systems
CICS PROVISIONING

6. CICS Deployment Assistant - Discovery
Graphical Visualisation
Tree View

7. CICS Deployment Assistant – new in v5.1
Discovery
Scoped connections view

8. DA - Plexify your unmanaged regions
Benefits
3 steps to a managed region
Manage your region from the CICS SM Explorer perspective
Discover
Visualize
Unmanaged regions
Manage 8 8 8

9. CICS Deployment Assistant v5.1
Reporting

10. CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS V5.1
What’s new in CICS DA V5.1…
CICS DA enables you to…
Enriched discovery of over 30 entities
Improved visualization with tagging and filtering
Connections view with scoping
Export model for external reporting
CICS TS V5.1 upgrade cheat sheet
Tagging and filtering of model elements
New navigators
Clone JCL improvements
IPv6 support
Virtual IP addressing support
Serviceability enhancements
Visualize and manage your CICS topology
Discover existing regions and sus-systems
Automation creates new CICSplex
Plexify and clone CICS regions
Start and stop a CICS region 10 10 10

11. CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS
What is CICS IA?
A discovery tool that identifies resource interdependencies and affinities in your CICS systems
Captures CICS application relationships:
Resources used by a transaction - Programs, Files, TSQs, TDQs plus DB2, MQ, IMS, Web services, and Natural
Identifies AG Natural and Adabas relationships
Identifies non-threadsafe programs
Transactions with affinities and their type / lifetime
API changes between CICS versions / releases
Unused resources
Sequencing of transactions within an application
What’s its value?
Real time documentation of CICS application systems
Automate Threadsafe Analysis
Identify and analyze affinities
Assist in application modernization activities
Quickly identify application scope
Verify the application code via call path tracing
Automatically maintains CPSM rules
Why is this tool important to CICS customers?
Reduce both time/resource required in understanding active CICS application inventory for efficient maintenance and reuse. A manual and error prone process today.
DISCOVERY

12. Why use CICS IA ? Projects Day to Day usage Application changes
Workload balancing
Affinity Analysis
Resource utilization
Application Modernization
Web services
Atom services
Events deployment
CICS TS Upgrade
Understand the use of TRUEs and GLUEs
Understand the use of modified or deleted SPIs and APIs
Assist with test coverage
Threadsafe Analysis
Day to Day usage
Application changes
Which programs uses a given resource
Application deployment
Governance – check for Affinities , Threadsafe commands , site rules
Problem determination
What new commands have been added to a given program using the First_used timestamp column
VSAM or resource recovery
Disable all programs that use this file

13. IA Architecture - Collector
AOR or TOR/AOR
Collectors for
Affinity
data
Collector
Interface
Application
Load Library
Interdependency
Command Flow
Data space
Dependency
Data
VSAM or
VSAM RLS
Data sets
Extract records
from log stream
CICS Journal
Log Stream
(GDG)
CINT log 13

14. Affinity & Dependency tables
CICS IA Architecture (Reporting Structure)
Application
Load Library
Load Module
Scanner
(LMS)
LMS
Report
Dependency
Reporter
Resource
Relationship
Database
Affinity & Dependency tables
Command Flow table
SQL
Update
Sample
Queries
Query
Dynamic
Threadsafe
IA Explorer
CSECT
Data
Affinity
VSAM or
VSAM RLS
Data sets
SQL Update
Create CSV
files
CSV files
SPUFI
Commad Flow
(GDG)
CSV file
Create
This database contains data extracted from the VSAM dependency file created by the Collector. It is updated periodically to add data from new or infrequently run applications.
The Query interface is a suite of CICS BMS applications that you can use to access the data held in the database.
The Dependency Reporter is a batch job that convert the dependency data collected by the Collector into reports in a readable format.
The Load Module Scanner is a batch utility that scans a load module library to detect those programs in the library that issue commands which may cause transaction resource dependencies. It produces a printed report.
The CSECT Scanner scans load modules for information that can be used to identify the version of each CSECT. It produces a printed report and creates information that is stored in DB2 tables which can be used, in conjunction with the DB2 dependency tables, to identify different versions of programs
CICS IA provides a verity of sample SQL queries as a starting point for the user to create there only queries for their specific needs.
The dynamic Threadsafe reporter creates a report identifying which EXEC CICS commands in the selected applications are threadsafe, non-threadsafe, or indeterminate-threadsafe.
The IA Explorer is a Eclipse based runtime interface. It helps build queries with which to interrogate the Dependency and Affinity database objects

15. Finding Threadsafe Resources with CICS IA
Problem
Transaction identified as having multiple TCB switches
How do you define as threadsafe and ensure data integrity?
Solution
Supplied Explorer queries
Identify programs used by the transaction with high switches
Run threadsafe queries on the programs
Determine TCB used by command within the program
Threadsafe Report
Analyze the commands issued by programs
Value
Reduce risk of data integrity issues by analyzing the program for shared data access.
Quickly convert programs to threadsafe with confidence.
Slide
Now that we identified a transaction with high TCB switches how we determine if it can be made threadsafe and ensure data integrity? CICS IA can help you find threadsafe resources and provide information on threadsafety by program and commands. Solutions are provided from Supplied Explorer queries to: identify programs used by the transaction with high switches, run threadsafe queries on the programs and determine which TCB is used by command within the program. In addition the batch Threadsafe Dynamic Analysis report is available.
With this, the value is reduced risk of data integrity issues by analyzing the program for shared data access and quickly converting programs to threadsafe with confidence.

16. CICS IA Explorer Threadsafe Queries

17. CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
Benefits
Run threadsafe report by region
Understand threadsafe issues by program
Run the report against the latest level of CICS
View Summary
Save as HTML report
View detail by program 17 17 17

18. CICS IA: Threadsafe report in the plug-in.
Open Report and print 18

19. Managing CICSPlex Affinities
Problem
Dynamically route transactions with affinities
How do you determine if a transaction has affinities?
Solution
Supplied Explorer queries
Show CPSM affinity groups
Show affinities for particular program set
Show affinities by specific command
Batch Report
Analyze the Affinities Reporter
Run the Affinities builder to create CPSM rules
Value
Manage affinities to quickly implement Dynamic Transaction Routing
Maintain affinities for application release migrations
Slide
The most complicated task in getting to a Dynamic Transaction Routing environment is managing CICSPlex affinities. The problem is that you have a transaction that you would like put in a DTR environment, however you are not sure if it has affinities. If it does have affinities, you must eliminate them or define them in a rule to CPSM.
CICS IA has solutions that can help with this very tedious task. The CICS IA Explorer provides queries to show the already defined CPSM groups, as well as show you the affinities for a particular program set or show affinities by specific commands. In addition it has multiple batch jobs to list affinities and a builder job that creates analyzes the CICS IA database and creates affinity rules that can be read directly into CPSM.
This provides you with the ability to manage affinities to quickly implement Dynamic Transaction Routing and maintain affinities for application release migrations.

20. Affinity & Dependency tables IA Explorer (CICS Explorer)
CICS IA Affinity Analysis
Affinity
Data
Resource
Relationship
Database
Affinity & Dependency tables OR
Affinities
Reporter
Affinities
Report
Reports
The Collector is a CICS transaction that runs in your CICS region and intercepts selected (CICS and non-CICS) programming commands. It records details of the resources used by the commands in an MVS data space. This dependency data is subsequently saved to a VSAM file.
This database contains data extracted from the VSAM dependency file created by the Collector. It is updated periodically to add data from new or infrequently run applications.
The Query interface is a suite of CICS BMS applications that you can use to access the data held in the database.
The Dependency Reporter is a batch job that convert the dependency data collected by the Collector into reports in a readable format.
The Affinities Reporter is a batch job that
converts the affinity data in the VSAM file into reports in a readable format
converts the affinity data collected by the Collector into reports in a readable format
The Builder is a batch utility that takes as input the file of basic affinity-transaction-group definitions created by the Affinities Reporter. It produces a file of "combined" affinity-transaction-group definitions suitable for input to CICSPlex SM, which insists that a specific CICS® transaction ID (TRANSID) can appear in only one transaction group. The Load Module Scanner is a batch utility that scans a load module library to detect those programs in the library that issue commands which may cause transaction resource dependencies. It produces a printed report.
The CSECT Scanner scans load modules for information that can be used to identify the version of each CSECT. It produces a printed report and creates information that is stored in DB2 tables which can be used, in conjunction with the DB2 dependency tables, to identify different versions of programs
CICS IA provides a verity of sample SQL queries as a starting point for the user to create there only queries for their specific needs.
The dynamic Threadsafe reporter creates a report identifying which EXEC CICS commands in the selected applications are threadsafe, non-threadsafe, or indeterminate-threadsafe.
The IA Explorer is a Eclipse based runtime interface. It helps build queries with which to interrogate the Dependency and Affinity database objects
Affinity
Trans
Group def
Affinity
Trans
Group def
Builder
CICSPlex SM
IA Explorer (CICS Explorer)

21. Finding Resources Affected a CICS Upgrade
Problem
When a new release of CICS is introduced, how do you ensure the applications will function correctly?
A number of APIs and SPIs may have been modified with the upgrade. What programs are using those API/SPIs? .
How do you prove that the application programs were exercised in the upgraded test environment?
Solution
Supplied Explorer queries
Identify programs using APIs and SPIs that have changed over the release levels for the upgrade.
Identify Exit programs using APIs/SPIs that have changed.
Identify Obsolete commands and options
IA’s timestamp feature can be used to show which programs were exercised in the test environment, and which ones were not.
Value
Reduce risk associated to the applications when upgrading to a new release of CICS TS.
Ensure that modules directly impacted by the upgrade get tested
Speed up the upgrade process by focussing on key application modules.
Slide
Now that we identified a transaction with high TCB switches how we determine if it can be made threadsafe and ensure data integrity? CICS IA can help you find threadsafe resources and provide information on threadsafety by program and commands. Solutions are provided from Supplied Explorer queries to: identify programs used by the transaction with high switches, run threadsafe queries on the programs and determine which TCB is used by command within the program. In addition the batch Threadsafe Dynamic Analysis report is available.
With this, the value is reduced risk of data integrity issues by analyzing the program for shared data access and quickly converting programs to threadsafe with confidence.

22. CICS IA Explorer – Migration Queries

23. Find reusable assets with CICS Interdependency Analyzer
Problem
Need to find good starting points to build Web services
Understand target application relationships and dependencies
Need to scope an application change
Solution
Supplied Explorer queries
Identify candidates to wrap as Web services
Identify all programs that issue send commands to a particular map
Expose VSAM files for DB2 conversion
Identify all programs that access a particular file
Discover all resources used by a transaction or program
Value
Reduced risk of problems when changing complex applications under time pressure or without deep CICS skills
Speed time to delivery by understanding scope of change
Slide

24. CICS IA Dynamic Calls Slide
In this CICS IA view I am looking for existing VSAM files to convert it to DB2. I use the CICS query on the top left for General and list all programs using files. I pick program OISA1010 and list it in the bottom left Program view. Then I ask IA to show all resources for this program. The uses view at the top left is populated with the resources used. I expand the file OISDDM30 to see it does an endbr, readnext and startbrowse. I look at the call path tree at the bottom of the screen to see all the places where this file is used in the program flow. Then I ask for all program that use the file with is populated in the middle bottom view. This view shows the various programs that access the file.
With this information I know what programs will need to be changed to convert to DB2 and the type of access that is executed against the file.

25. Show resources for Inbound Web Service

26. CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
Visualization
Benefits
A pictorial view of resource utilization
A picture is worth a 1000 words 26 26 26

27. CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
What’s new in CICS IA V5.1…
CICS IA enables you to…
Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.1, including enhanced business application analysis
New threadsafe analysis plug-in view and report
Improved installation and configuration
DB2 data lifecycle management
Native SQL language stored procedures
Graphical visualization view of resources
Identify threadsafe / non-threadsafe programs
Isolate and remove affinities
Speed CICSPlex® SM workload management
Advanced CICS command flow analysis
Highlight CICS web service candidates 27 27

28. CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS
What is CICS PA?
A Comprehensive Performance Reporting and Analysis tool for CICS
Provides ongoing system management and measurement reports on all aspects of CICS application performance
How do it work?
Uses SMF data as input
Easy to use interface for report generation (over 240 supplied report forms)
Performance and Statistical analysis
Graphical performance analysis via the explorer
What’s its value?
Analyze CICS Application performance
Improve CICS resource usage
Evaluate the effects of CICS system tuning efforts
Improve transaction response time
Provide ongoing system management and measurement reports
Increase availability of resources
Increase the productivity of system and application programmers
Provide awareness of usage trends
Why this tool is important to CICS customers
Reduce both time/resource required to analyze off-line performance data (usually massive) for tuning and capacity planning purposes.
Enables deep-dive CICS performance analysis and understanding of usage trends
Aids capacity planning and tuning
Helps quickly identify and eliminate trends leading to online performance problems
PERFORMANCE

29. What is CICS Performance Analyzer ?
A Comprehensive Performance Reporting and Analysis tool for CICS
Uses SMF data as input to reporting
SMF 110: CMF Performance, Resource, and Exception Class
SMF 110: CICS Statistics and CICS Server Statistics data
SMF 101: DB2 Accounting records
SMF 116: WebSphere MQ Accounting records
SMF 112: OMEGAMON XE for CICS records
SMF 88: z/OS System Logger
SMF 111: CICS Transaction Gateway Statistics data
CICS PA helps …
Analyze CICS application performance
Improve CICS resource usage
Evaluate the effects of CICS system tuning efforts
Improve transaction response time
Provide ongoing system management and measurement reports
Increase availability of resources
Increase the productivity of system and application programmers
Provide awareness of usage trends …

30. CICS PA Architecture
This visual shows the main components of CICS PA; including the TSO Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) dialog, it's related data sets and the CICS PA batch analysis, reporting programs and data sets.

31. Performance Summary report
V2R1M CICS Performance Analyzer
Performance Summary
__________________________________________________
SUMM0003 Printed at 15:14:26 2/14/ Data from 08:27:42 1/30/2007 to 09:19:35 1/30/ Page
Transaction Response Time Distribution Summary (Percentage) by Time-of-Day
< >= Max Avg
Stop Tran #Tasks Response Response Response Response Response Response Response Response Response Response Response
Interval Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time
09:16:00 WMSC
09:16:
09:17:00 CEDF
09:17:00 CEMT
09:17:00 WMSC
09:17:
09:18:00 CATA
09:18:00 CEDF
09:18:00 CEJR
09:18:00 CEMT
09:18:00 CESN
09:18:00 CGRP
09:18:00 CISC
09:18:00 CPIR
09:18:00 CPLT
09:18:00 CQRY
09:18:00 CRSQ
09:18:00 CSSY
09:18:00 CWBG
09:18:00 CXRE
09:18:00 DPL
09:18:00 WMSC
09:18:
Total

32. DB2 Reports – List
V3R2M CICS Performance Analyzer
DB2 - List
DB2R0001 Printed at 10:14:46 2/13/ Data from 13:31:17 1/24/2009 to 13:32:08 1/24/ Page
Tran/ Userid/ Program/ UOW R DB2 Wait Time.. DB2 User CPU Response A
SSID Authid Planname APPLID Task Seq T Term LUName Connect Thread ReqCnt Time Start Time Stop Time Time B
WROS RAIMAN CRWWPPOS STM4IRA T <ADQ STM4IRT :31: :31:
CH1G STM4IRA1 CRWWPPOS STM4IRA Thread Identification ID=ENTRWROS0037 NETName=USIBMSY.LE UOWID=16372A6C7E14
Begin Time: 13:31: /24/09 End Time: 13:31: /24/09
Class1: Thread Time Elapsed= CPU=
Class2: In-DB2 Time Elapsed= CPU=
Class3: Suspend Time Total = I/O= Lock/Latch= Other=
Buffer Manager Summary GtPgRq= SyPgUp=
Locking Summary Suspnd= DeadLk= TmeOut= MxPgLk=
SQL DML Query/Update Sel= Ins= Upd= Del=
SQL DML 'Other' Des= Pre= Ope= Fet= Clo=
WRNO RAIMAN CRWWPPNO STM4IRA T <ACY STM4IRT :31: :31:
CH1G STM4IRA1 CRWWPPNO STM4IRA Thread Identification ID=ENTRWRNO0051 NETName=USIBMSY.LE UOWID= E8927
Begin Time: 13:31: /24/09 End Time: 13:31: /24/09
Class1: Thread Time Elapsed= CPU=
Class2: In-DB2 Time Elapsed= CPU=
Class3: Suspend Time Total = I/O= Lock/Latch= Other=
Buffer Manager Summary GtPgRq= SyPgUp=
Locking Summary Suspnd= DeadLk= TmeOut= MxPgLk=
SQL DML Query/Update Sel= Ins= Upd= Del=
SQL DML 'Other' Des= Pre= Ope= Fet= Clo=
This visual shows an example of the format of the DB2 List Report.

33. Statistics Alert Reporting …

34. CICS PA plug-in to the CICS Explorer
Provides numerous methods of visualizing historical transaction performance and statistical data
Tabular data views with interactive features
Graphical representation of performance data
View Statistic Alerts via the explorer
Explorer Displays data loaded from an HDB into a DB2 database or from CSV files
Enhanced to easily work with multiple DB2 data sources
Integrates with the strategic CICS Explorer and other tooling plug-ins
Evolutionary and responsive solution

35. CICS PA – Integration with the CICS Explorer
See extracts of the file in raw data form..
Powerful active outline view speeds selection
Drill into data files using the explorer view
..or follow Analysis Scenarios like Threadsafe to highlight issues
One of the most powerful features is the ability to continuing expanding the file to go straight to the area of concern. From here the analyst is able to access the data directly or follow pre-defined Analysis scenarios to gain graphical visualization of their data.
Flexibility in what you want to see

36. CICS PA adds Platform and Application Performance insight
Benefits
Summarize and export application and transaction data to DB2
Summarize CICS performance data at application and transaction level
Drill down into details such as CPU, Response time, Storage and TCB usage
Data filtering to analyze specific transactions and operations
Statistics alerts
Simplify analysis of large volumes of data
Identify performance bottlenecks promptly
Drilldown to transaction or operation
Detailed performance and statistics analysis with data filtering 36 36

37. CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
Performance Insight
What’s new in CICS PA V5.1…
CICS PA enables you to…
CICS TS V5.1 – support for new metrics
Application, Platform, and Policy
Plug-in enhancements:
Application centric view
Customizable sheet views
Suspend time reporting
Easy navigation to key reports and alerts
SMF log stream support
Batch statistics reporting for CICS TG
Improved management of PA data loaded to DB2
CPU totals on MQ reports
SMF data processing performance improvements
Comprehensive Performance Reporting and Analysis for CICS including DB2, WebSphere MQ, and MVS System Logger
Understand trends and develop capacity plans
View statistics and create statistical alerts 37

38. CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS
What is it?
CICS Configuration Manager simplifies CICS resource-definition administration and maintenance, while at the same time offering comprehensive reporting and optional change-management control facilities.
What’s its value?
Simplified and controlled management of CICS application resources. Aids systems administration, lowers costs, reduces risk of downtime due to user errors and speeds version to version migration
How does it enhance the management of CICS?
Create, Update, Delete, Copy, Replicate CICS resource definitions
Provides change management through the life-cycle stages, e.g. development, test, production
Create customized reports to identify redundant definitions, show resource relationships and change management history
Audit, back-out and change authorization capabilities
Why is this tool important?
Accurate CICS resource definitions are essential to maintain the high availability expected of CICS. With tens, or even hundreds, of CICS regions across the enterprise, each containing hundreds or thousands of artifacts, maintaining potentially millions of definitions can be challenging.
Reduce both time/resource in gaining tighter control over CICS CSD administration
Enhance compliance with change management policies.
Generate audit reports to simplify effort and costs associated with compliance
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

39. CICS CM architecture CICSPlex SM Maintenance point CMAS Data
repository
CICS region
Web UI
Agent
CICS CM
Client
server
API
ISPF
dialog
interface
SOAP (XML)
CICS
Repository
via TCP/IP
Web
CICS CM
Server
Batch
sockets
support
command
Journal
interface
ISC
DFHEDAP
Your
CSD file
custom
interface
CICS CM Install
Agent
DFHEDAP and
EXEC CICS CSD
CICS region

40. Single point of control over Resource Definitions
Access multiple CSDs, Data Repositories, Lists, and Groups from a single interface

41. Single point of control over Resource Definitions
Access multiple CSDs, Data Repositories, Lists, and Groups from a single interface

42. Single point of control over Resource Definitions
Access multiple CSDs, Data Repositories, Lists, and Groups from a single interface

43. Single point of control over Resource Definitions
Access multiple CSDs, Data Repositories, Lists, and Groups from a single interface

44. CICS CM: Migrating definitions through application life cycle
Migration schemes identify source and target repositories
Different schemes to progressively migrate a change package
Development environment
Test environment
Production environment
Change package
Change package
“Development to Test”
migration scheme
“Test to Production”
migration scheme

45. CICS CM: Migrating definitions through application life cycle
Transformation rules tailor definitions for each target:
No manual editing – it’s automatic
Change Group names, attribute values, or resource definition names
Value masking is supported (e.g. change File DSNAME *DEVT* to *TEST*)
Qualification criteria may be specified
Development environment
Test environment
CPSM DR
CSD file
Group: PAYDEVT
File: PAYMASTER
DSname: PAY.DEVT.MASTER
Group: PAYTEST
File: PAYMASTER
DSname: PAY.TEST.MASTER
Transformation Rule

46. CICS CM – CICS resource definition lifecycle management
Benefits
Eliminate manual and error prone processes
Full audit trail and backout capability
Integrate with source code change management processes
Change package created for resources in Development repository
Install definitions in
CICS regions on test environment
Change package migrated to test environment 46

47. CICS CM: Backout and audit compliance
All changes logged to a journal file
Backout entire change package
Recover individual resource definitions
View resource definition histories on screen
Batch, ISPF and Explorer view of change history
Test
Production
System failure!
Changes
Backout

48. CICS CM: Deployment analysis
Immediate analysis – no need to stop/start CICS regions
Supports CSD, CPSM, or CSD/CPSM hybrid models
Understands ‘order-sequence’ processing and RASGNDEF overrides
Provides filtering for auto-install, dynamic resources, known conditions
Reports …
Analysis Report
What’s new, missing, different
Duplicate candidates, winners & losers
Referential-integrity errors
Un-installable definitions
Enabled/disabled states
Local/remote indicators
CICS region
CICS CM
In-memory resource definitions
Stored resource definitions in
CSD files and/or CPSM

49. Single point of control over Resource Definitions
Cold start analysis
Missing
Different
RI errors

50. CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS V5.1 - The value of control
What’s new in CICS CM V5.1…
CICS CM enables you to…
Application, Platform, and Policy resources
Enhanced plug-in with Packaging and Deployment Analysis
Sort in Package view and Ready list
ADD/REMOVE CSD group to/from LIST during Migrate operation
Option to automatically remove empty Groups from CSD List
SSL support for plug-in connection
Audit trail for Install and NewCopy
Manage changes throughout the life-cycle
Create reports to identify redundant definitions, show resource relationships, and change management history
Manage audit, back-out and change authorizations 50 50 50

51. CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS V5.1 - Reduce the risk to your data
What’s new in CICS VR V5.1…
CICS VR enables you to…
Replication logging in support of the GDPS-Active-Active availability solution
Batch logging enhancements
Batch backout improvements
Migration utility enhancements
Logstream printing and other usability enhancements
Supports backups created by Backup- While-Open (BWO)
Automate recovery
Test forward recovery and backout
Produce disaster recovery reports 51 51

52. VSAM based applications
VSAM does not easily integrate with data from DB2 and other systems
VSAM is not easily accessible from other platforms
Maintenance and reorg tools lack the richness of DBMS
VSAM is not designed to support 24x7 mixed batch and online
VSAM to DB2 Business Drivers
Powerful query tools (business intelligence and data analytics)
24 x 7 online operation (near continuous availability)
Online data reorganization and backup (reduce batch outages)
Data sharing flexibility (cloud computing approach)
Access from Java and web services (gateways and connectors)
Application ISV software (removing VSAM dependencies)
Centralization of corporate data (data consolidation)
Availability of DB2 skills
Corporate standardization (eliminating non system based VSAM)

53. CICS VSAM Transparency
Tool to migrate VSAM files to DB2 without changing application programs
Data reengineering facility to create more meaningful in a DB2 environment
Legacy programs access DB2 data using driver modules CICS VT generates for each migrated data set
Both CICS and batch programs can access data in DB2 under the control of CICS VT
Migrated data can be accessed by SQL in new programs
Existing programs can be enhanced using SQL
Low risk migration strategy

54. The CICS Tools Portfolio
CICS Interdependency Analyzer (IA)
Collect active application inventory for efficient resource understanding
CICS Performance Analyzer (PA)
Batch performance reporting/analysis for tuning and capacity planning
CICS Configuration Manager (CM)
Administrating and maintaining CICS resource definitions
CICS Deployment Assistant (DA)
Discover, model, visualize, and deploy new and existing CICS regions
CICS VSAM Recovery (VR)
Automate the recovery of lost VSAM data
CICS VSAM Transparency (VT)
Enable VSAM to DB2 migration without changes to existing applications
CICS Batch Application Control (BAC)
Manage state of file resources from a batch program
IBM Session Manager (ISM)
Access to multiple z/OS applications from a single terminal
CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer (OTTO)
Optimize outbound 3270 data streams to improve performance

55. CICS Explorer Redbook - SG24-7778-01
This Redbook® focuses on the new CICS Explorer
The first part of the Redbook overviews the CICS Explorer, along with all the CICS Tools plug-ins
The second part of the Redbook focuses on different scenarios in which the CICS Explorer can be used, along with the CICS Tools plug-ins to resolve different problems

56. GENAPP – SupportPac and Redpaper
GENAPP available to customers as SupportPac CB12
Download from
This presentation is based on GENAPP and the scenarios in this new IBM Redpaper
Download from

57. CICS Communities and Information
CICS Transaction Server V5.1
CICS Explorer home page
Remember this link ibm.com/cics/explorer
CICS Explorer Forum
IBM developerWorks forum with FAQs, Links and resources, ISV Contributions, etc. Ask questions, suggest improvements, report problems, chat
Twitter
Subscribe to the IBM_System_z channel to get CICS Explorer news flashes
CICS Blog
Comment and opinion at TheMasterTerminal.com
CICS eNews
Subscribe for news about CICS and related products
YouTube channels
CICS Explorer - Videos, demos and other cool stuff
CICSFluff - Other CICS videos
Home page
CICS Explorer Public Forum
CICS Hub
Twitter
Blog
eNews
YouTube 57

58. Sources of Info Web Demos and animations CICS Tools
Home page ibm.com/cics/tools/
Trial download ibm.com/software/os/zseries/trials/cicstools/
CICS Explorer
Home page ibm.com/cics/explorer
Download page
CICS TS home page ibm.com/cics
Demos and animations
System Z Sandbox – hands on use of CICS Explorer and tools:
CICS Explorer demo - featuring Threadsafe Analysis using the CICS PA and CICS IA perspectives -
CICS Explorer animation -
CICS Transaction Server in your SOA - Great source of links to more CICS ecosystem information - ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/presentations/CICS_TS_in_your_SOA_-_Links_-_Issue_3.ppt 58

59. Questions