CICSplex Transaction Details attribute group

The CICSplex Transaction Details attributes provide detailed information about a running transaction. Use the CICSplex Transaction Details attributes to see how much CPU and storage the task is using, and to determine its current state. High CPU and storage consumption are indicators of a looping task which can seriously degrade performance. A looping task can lock up the entire CICS region, or exhaust available CICS storage causing a short-on-storage condition.

If you want to view how the task has spent its time so far, select the Transaction Timings workspace link in Transaction Analysis. If you want to see details about the amount of storage a task is currently using or statistics about the storage it has used throughout its life, select the Transaction Storage Analysis workspace link in Transaction Analysis.

Attach Time Indicates the date and time when the transaction was attached.

CICS Region Name Indicates the job name or modify ID of the CICS region being monitored. Each CICS region in a z/OS image has a unique name. This name is an alphanumeric string, with a maximum of 8 characters, and case-sensitive. CICS region names are always in uppercase characters.

CPU Time Indicates the amount of CPU time (in thousandths of a second) used by the transaction.

Current Program ID Indicates the program currently being executed by this transaction.

Dispatcher Queue Indicates in which of the dispatcher queues this transaction is found.

Elapsed Time Indicates the time elapsed (in seconds accurate to thousandths of a second) since the transaction was attached. The valid value is a floating-point decimal, accurate to three decimal places.

EXEC CICS Command Is the function code of the current or last EXEC CICS command issued by the running application program.

Facility ID Indicates the unique identifier of the facility to which the transaction is attached.

Facility Type Indicates the type of facility to which the transaction is attached.

First Program ID Is the program first invoked when the transaction started.

Origin Node Is the combination of z/OS System ID (SMFID) and CICS region name. The value format is an alphanumeric string, maximum 32 bytes, and case-sensitive.

When a situation is true, the system compares the origin node name in the attribute to the names of managed systems assigned to the item. If the origin node name matches the name of a managed system, the status of the item changes accordingly. If the names of the origin node and the managed systems do not match, the status of the item remains unchanged.

Originating Transaction ID Is the transaction ID used to originate this transaction.

Purge Status Indicates whether the transaction has been purged.

Purgeable Suspend Indicates whether or not the suspended transaction can be purged.

Resource Name Indicates the name of the resource the transaction is waiting to access.

Resource Type Is the category of resource for which the transaction is waiting.

Storage Used Above 16 MB Indicates the amount of storage (in kilobytes) above the 16 megabyte line used by the transaction.

Storage Used Below 16 MB Indicates the amount of storage (in kilobytes) below the 16 megabyte line used by the transaction.

Suspend Timeout Due Indicates the time and date this transaction is because of be purged if the suspend does not end.

Suspend Type Indicates the type of request that is causing this transaction to wait.

System ID Indicates the four-character name that uniquely identifies an active z/OS operating system within a given CICSplex. The value format is an alphanumeric string, maximum 4 characters, and case-sensitive. z/OS System IDs are always in uppercase characters.

Task Number Is the number sequentially assigned by CICS to uniquely identify each task.

Task State Indicates whether the transaction is currently running and if not, why.

Time in Suspend Indicates the amount of time (in thousandths of a second) the transaction has spent waiting.

Time of Suspend Is the time at which this transaction started the current wait.

Transaction ID Is the four-character name of the transaction.

Umbrella Transaction ID Indicates the transaction ID assigned to this transaction by the application calling OMEGAMON's Umbrella transaction services.

UOW State Is the state of the unit-of-work.

User ID Indicates the one to eight character identifier of the CICS user.