Transaction Analysis workspace

This comprehensive view of transactions enables you to identify problem transactions across CICS regions and z/OS images for the CICSplex. This workspace displays data provided by the CICSplex Transaction Analysis attribute group.

The predefined Transaction Analysis workspace contains the following views:

The Transaction Analysis table view provides links to these workspaces:

It also provides links to the Transaction Details in 3270 and Online Data Viewing in 3270 views of the 3270 interface. When you right-click a link icon in the Transaction Analysis table view and select Transaction Details in 3270 or Online Data Viewing in 3270, you must enter your terminal session user credentials in the dialog and click OK. A terminal view is displayed within the workspace, with the appropriate details. Using this panel, you can examine much more historical data then is available in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspace.

Note that each of these predefined workspace links to a 3270 session has an associated sample script. You should review these scripts prior to using them in your environment.

If the OMEGAMON XE for DB2 on z/OS V4.1 product is also installed and running, you can link to its Detailed Thread Exception workspace, filtered by the DB2 Correlation identifier. With this feature, you can track a transaction's activity as it moves between CICS and DB2.

Likewise, if the OMEGAMON XE for DB2 on z/OS V4.1 product is installed and running, you can link to its Single DB2 Thread Summary workspace, filtered by the DB2 Correlation identifier. With this feature, you can retrieve detail data about the running transaction.

If the OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS V4.1 product is also installed and running, you can link to its DBCTL Detailed Thread Activity (Active) workspace, filtered by the CICS Jobname and CICS Task Number columns. With this feature, you can track a transaction's activity as it moves between CICS and IMS.

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Multiple-row purge using a single Take Action command

You can purge multiple executing transactions in a single invocation of the Take Action command with the multiple-line-kill function. You can highlight multiple rows in the Transaction Analysis workspace; the right-click action menu now includes a Purge selected tasks option. A confirmation dialog is displayed allowing you to change the requested action to include a Force Purge.

To use the feature, navigate to the Transaction Analysis workspace for the appropriate CICS® region.

  1. Highlight all tasks to be purged, and right-click to bring up the action menu.
    Figure 1. Transaction Analysis workspace action menu
    This graphic shows the Transaction Analysis workspace's right-click action menu.
  2. Select Purge selected tasks.
    Note:
    If you selected only one task, this option is not available. You must purge a single task using the existing CEKL Purge Take Action command.
  3. When the dialog is displayed listing all tasks selected for purging, review the list. There is a check box on the panel so you can issue a Force Purge command.
    Figure 2. Purge Selected Tasks confirmation dialog
    This graphic shows the confirmation screen for deleting multiple CICS tasks, along with the tasks to be deleted.
  4. If you click OK, the command is issued to CICS. When all commands have been issued, the results dialog shown in Figure 3 displays the status of each command submitted. Note that the results indicate whether the command was successfully issued to CICS but does not show if the task was purged.
    Figure 3. Purge Selected Tasks results dialog
    This graphic shows the results dialog, which lists each task that has been submitted to CICS for purge.
  5. Click OK to refresh the display and return to the workspace.