Mainframe Systems Management

CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management

Frank White

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Agenda

> What is CA SYSVIEW?

> CA SYSVIEW CICS Option

> Integration Example

> What’s Coming in r12

Introduction to CA SYSVIEW

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Introducing CA SYSVIEW

> Base Product z/OS

JES2

USS

Parallel Sysplex

Workload Manager

System Condition Monitor

Graphical User Interface

> CICS Option

> IMS Option

> TCP/IP Option

> WebSphere MQ Option

> CA-Datacom Option

> Event Capture Option

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Data Collection and Monitoring

> Environmentally friendly Low resource usage

– Typically 3 - 5%

> Customized collection levels

> User-defined exceptions Thresholds

States

> Alerting and actions Central exception alerts Log for events Issue warning Trigger REXX exec

– CA Common Services

– CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation

Send SNMP trap

CA SYSVIEW CICS Option

CICS Monitoring

> Overall health summary of all CICS regions

> Full support for all IBM supported releases

> One product to install and maintain

> Single point of control for all CICS regions

> Does not use CICS resources

> CICS Status, Storage, Resource, Historical information

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CICS Resource Monitoring

> Global user exits

> Files

> Journals/Logs

> Kernel tasks

> LSR pools

> Programs

> SIT

> MRO/ISC links

> Transaction classes

> Transient data

> Terminals

> Timers

> Transactions

> VSAM files

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CICS Status

> Active and suspended tasks

> Degradation wait analysis

> CICS domains

> Dump statistics

> Connections

> Enqueues and enqueue pools

> Automatic initiate descriptors (AIDS)

> Interval control elements (ICE)

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CICS Region Status

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Degradation Analysis

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CICS Storage

> Dynamic Storage Areas (DSAs) Extents

Subpools

Elements

> Subspace areas Transaction isolation

> Temporary storage

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Dynamic Storage Areas

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CICS Historical

> System interval analysis

> Detailed transaction log

> Transaction interval summary

> Exception log

> Log historical records to SMF

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Transaction Log Detail

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CICS Toolkit

> Resource management functions Automated response time management

Transaction cancellation at shutdown

– DFHTM1781 CICS shutdown cannot complete

CICS dump management

– Suppression policies

CICS SMF 110 record suppression

– Suppress records by transaction ID

Integration

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Integration Example – CA OPS/MVS

> CA OPS/MVS® Event Management and Automation Direct interface between products

Initiate automated actions before performance or service levels have been impacted

– Performance alerts

– Performance data collected and correlated

– Take corrective actions

Include powerful CA SYSVIEW commands as part of the automated response

– Take corrective actions

CA SYSVIEW r12

Enhancements

– Some r12 Highlights– CA Vantage GMI

– Persistent Data Store

– Audit Events

– CICS Highlights

CA Vantage GMI Component

– Graphical User Interface (GUI)• Design as a extension to existing User Interfaces

– Initial delivery is windows base

– CA Vantage GMI Servers to perform• Display

• Filter

• Sort

• Graph

• ………

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CA Vantage GMI Component

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CA Vantage GMI Component

Persistent Data Store of Product Settings

The CA SYSVIEW persistent data store is a mechanism that allows dynamic updates to be saved or hardened. Data can be saved and retrieved from the persistent data store. The persistent data store is a new CA SYSVIEW facility that preserves changes to data objects across multiple executions of CA SYSVIEW and across an operating system IPL.

This environment lets you do the following Roll out product settings across multiple instances of CA SYSVIEW

running in the same system or within the same SYSPLEX.

Maintain data objects that contain various types of data collection, statistics, and configuration options that control the operation of the product.

Save, retrieve, and copy the data from the persistent data store.

Audit Event

> Events occurring within CA SYSVIEW that change resources. The Audit Event can view and control the historical audit activities.

> When an Audit Event occurs, you can do the following: Write record to SMF recording the event

Write record to logstream recording the event

Notify CA OPS/MVS of the event

Issue a WTO message recording the event

r12 CICS Changes

> CICS Dynamic Library Definition DFHRPL dynamic allocation with CICS 3.2

The following DDNAMES are no longer needed in the CICS region’s JCL

XPFCPARM

XPFCLOG

XPFCDUMP (no longer used)

r12 CICS Changes

> Numerous Command Enhancements– CDOMAINS - CTASKS

– CGBLEXIT - CTCLASS

– CICE - CTEMPSTG

– CICSLIST - CTHRESH

– CICSLOGR - CTRANLOG

– CICSSET - CTRANOPT

– CMONITOR - CTRANS

– CPROGRAM - CTRANSUM

– CSOCKETS - CTSPOOLS

– CSYSDATA - CXLOGS

> New Commands– CCHANNEL - CCONTAIN - CGATES - CTDSTATS

Future Direction

Product integration

– Wily

– CA OPS/MVS (more applications)

CA Vantage GMI

– Extensions

Provide more intuitive analysis

– Thresholds

Historical

– Extensions

Inter-Operability

Mainframe Systems Management

CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management

Frank White