Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-04 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Michael, REVIEW, REVSMF (CBT File 134/135) Regards, David On 2021-08-04 10:46, Michael Oujesky wrote: As I recall, there was an ISPF tool (Review?) that would format the headers and a portion of the remainder of SMF records in VBS files. At 03:03 PM 8/2/2021, you wrote:

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-04 Thread Michael Oujesky
As I recall, there was an ISPF tool (Review?) that would format the headers and a portion of the remainder of SMF records in VBS files. At 03:03 PM 8/2/2021, you wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not a real answer - but more of a side question for others. Whenever I wanted a quick look

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-03 Thread Matthew Stitt
Have look at CBT tape file 529. THere are programs which read the CICS SMF records and can generate reports. CICS has not changed the record layouts, just added more types for more statistics over the years. Matthew On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 03:02:29 +, kekronbekron wrote: >z/OS v2r1 added

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread kekronbekron
z/OS v2r1 added VBS support for REXX. Ref: https://mainframeperformancetopics.com/2020/01/04/what-im-looking-forward-to-in-z-os-2-1/ - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 at 8:23 AM, kekronbekron <02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hope I'm

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread kekronbekron
Hope I'm not wrong when I say that REXX has support to read VB and VBS... from v2r3 or something. That said, you'll start crying as soon as you try to start processing CICS SMF in REXX. If you have any CICS monitoring product that records its own SMF, it's easier to start recording that SMF

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread Michael Oujesky
CICS has native support (CMF - CICS Monitoring Facility) for generating SMF records documenting errors, transaction detail (performance class), and region interval activity. These can (and usually do) go to SMF, but can go to other log files. Other monitors have that capability of capturing

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread Andrew Rowley
EasySMF can report on CICS transaction SMF date. It's not free (if that's a requirement) but it is inexpensive. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread Lennie Bradshaw
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: 02 August 2021 21:03 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Log of CICS transactions Not a real answer - but more of a side question for others. Whenever I wanted a quick look at SMF records I would dump what I

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread ITschak Mugzach
CICS can produce the related SMF records. Some monitors such as omegamon also produce transaction usage history that can save you some SMF records. Some products, such as zSecure can read VBS files as well. Last thing, Rexx EXECIO can process VBS files. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
DFH$MOLS utility. You can massage the output via REXX code and filter TRAN codes and have summary or detailed statistics. See also the STAT transaction. On Tue, Aug 3, 2021, 06:07 David Elliot wrote: > You should spend an hour or five with your CICS Performance book then all > will become

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread David Elliot
You should spend an hour or five with your CICS Performance book then all will become clear. On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:41 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > I've worked at a number of mainframe installations, and at many of them > I've encountered a dataset that logs usage of CICS transactions. Usually >

Re: Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread Tom Brennan
Not a real answer - but more of a side question for others. Whenever I wanted a quick look at SMF records I would dump what I was interested in to my own dataset, which was VBS of course. Then I used an auth command we had called DSCBMOD (maybe from CBT?) to change VBS to VB and I was off

Log of CICS transactions

2021-08-02 Thread Bob Bridges
I've worked at a number of mainframe installations, and at many of them I've encountered a dataset that logs usage of CICS transactions. Usually it's a GDG, either weekly or monthly, wherein each record contains a transaction, a user ID and a count. I'm not a CICS support guru -- in fact in