The Pagepool Summary workspace reports the status of storage of both DSA and EDSA in your CICS regions. There are a large number of attributes associated with the reports and they all provide good tuning opportunities. If you need more details about specific details use the Pagepool Details table view.
Because of the large number of attributes in this group you might want to regroup them and in some cases delete them from your view. As with all the table views, you can either deselect the columns by right-clicking or slide them to the left or right within the table.
The predefined Pagepool Summary workspace contains the:
You can regroup these attributes and in some cases delete them from your view. As with all the table views, you can either deselect the columns by right-clicking or slide them to the left or right within the table.
The Pagepool details table reports the status of storage of all eight DSA/ EDSAs in CICS regions. It extends the information collected in the storage analysis workspace. There are a large number of attributes associated with the reports and they all provide good tuning opportunities.
It is through this table that you monitor the number of storage violations and the number of times that your CICS regions went short on storage. You can set up a threshold to sound an alert if either the DSA or EDSA use percentage is reaching a critical level. Alternatively you might want to set up a situation that automatically increases the size of the of a DSA or EDSA while you investigate the cause of the problem.
You can use this table to investigate the causes of the problem as it gives details about the number of suspensions, cushions, extents, GETMAIN, and FREEMAIN requests for each region.
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