© 2012 IBM Corporation CICS Transaction Server V5.1 Manage CICS Eco System using CICS Tools V5.1 Joe Gailey [email protected]

© 2012 IBM Corporation

CICS Transaction Server V5.1

Manage CICS Eco System using CICS Tools V5.1

Joe [email protected]


© 2012 IBM Corporation2

CICS Explorer helps to reduce development and admin skills

Need to bring CICS technical staff who are new to System z up to speed and productive quickly and avoid the ISPF learning curve and context switching issues

Intuitive navigation and revolutionary integration not only simplifies access to CICS development, administrative, and operations tools, but also enables users to view and edit zOS Datasets, PDS members, and zFS files, and edit and submit JCL, view output and job logs, etc

Solution

Value Experts get the job done faster

New hires more quickly effective

Strategic Interface for CICS

Problem



CICS TS, IMS,DB2, MQ, z/OS

Execution TreeDependenciesQueriesCommand Flow

IA

Threadsafe, File, CPU,Response & Wait analysis, Statistics, Alerts, Graphical andSheet views

PA

IBM CICS Explorer® V5.1.0.0

CM

CRUD, Install, History, Backout, Audit, Search, Compare, Packaging

StatusSituationsTopology

XE

Daemon & ConnectionStatus & Test

TG

ibm.com/cicsibm.com/cics/tools

ibm.com/cics/explorer

CICS, IMS,DB2, & z/OSApplicationDebugging

DT

CICS, IMS, DB2,& z/OSAbend Reporting& Diagnosis

FA

ConfigurationStatusControl, Test

MQ

SMIA PACMDATGISM

CICS Transaction ServerCICS Interdependency AnalyzerCICS Performance AnalyzerCICS Configuration ManagerCICS Deployment AssistantCICS Transaction GatewayIBM Session Manager

APAFADTFMWSIM

Application Performance AnalyzerFault AnalyzerDebug ToolFile ManagerWorkload Simulator

MQ WebSphere MQ

XE OMEGAMON XE for CICS

RDz Rational Developer for System z

CICS, IMS, DB2, & z/OSObservation Requests& Reporting

APA

Deployment,Discovery,Visualization, Cloning, Automation & Control

DA

Session and user views, Configuration, Broadcast, User and Admin commands

ISMDevelopTest

RDzSM

CRUD/InstallControl, FilterTopologyEvents, ATOM

SM



IA


IA

Threadsafe, File, CPU,Response Time, Statistics, Alerts, Graphical andSheet views

PA


PA

CM

CRUD/InstallHistory, Audit BackoutSearch, Compare

CM



XE


XEDaemon &ConnectionStatus & Test

TG

Daemon &ConnectionStatus & Test

TG


DT


DT


FA


FA


MQ


MQ

CICS, IMS, DB2,& z/OSObservation Requests& Reporting

APA


APA

DeploymentDiscovery,Visualization,Automation & Control

DA


DA

Threadsafe, File, CPU,Response Time analysisGraphical andSheet views

ISM


ISM

Manipulate, browsez/OS data sets, z/FS,VSAM, MQ, CICS, DB2

FM

SM

CRUD, Install, Control, Filter, Sort, Topology, Events, ATOM, Java, WLM,Txn Tracking, Copy/Paste

3270 applicationperformance testing

WSIM

ManageIMS …

IMS ExplorerSM


SM



IA


IA


PA


PA

CM


CM



XE


XEDaemon &ConnectionStatus & Test

TG

Daemon &ConnectionStatus & Test

TG


DT


DT


FA


FA


MQ


MQ


APA


APA


DA


DA


ISM


ISM

z/OS Explorer

z/OS Connections, z/OS Datsasets,zFS files, JES



Five core CICS Tools – Day one CICS TS V5.1 exploitationFive core CICS Tools – Day one CICS TS V5.1 exploitation

•Discovery and visualization aids insight into application and platform dependencies

•Automation speeds service delivery and ensures standardization and governance

•Modern, integrated user interfaces lower skills barrier

•Day-1 exploitation of CICS TS V5.1 new capabilities reduces time to value

•Five core tools support and extend the CICS runtime

•Discovery and visualization aids insight into application and platform dependencies

•Automation speeds service delivery and ensures standardization and governance

•Modern, integrated user interfaces lower skills barrier

•Day-1 exploitation of CICS TS V5.1 new capabilities reduces time to value

•Five core tools support and extend the CICS runtime

Fully integrated with CICS TS & CICS ExplorerFully integrated with CICS TS & CICS ExplorerCICS

Deployment Assistant

V5.1

CICS Transaction Server

V5.1

CICS Configuration

Manager V5.1

CICS Interdependency

Analyzer V5.1

CICS Performance

Analyzer V5.1

CICS VSAM Recovery

V5.1



What is it?

A tool to help provision the CICS Environment, providing discovery and visualization features that provide insight into the overall CICS Eco-system.

What’s its value?

Topology Visualization

Simplify tasks, save time, and reduce risk

Automate many complex provisioning activities

Significantly reduce the time required to validate CICS topology

How does it enhance the management of CICS?

Discovery and Modelling of CICS systems and applications

Deployment perspective integrates with CICS Explorer Advanced Topology Visualization

Automated creation, deployment, customization, and control of CICS regions

Edit files, submit JCL, view output

Simplify tasks, save time, and reduce risk

Why is this tool important?

Improved speed to market

Reduced chance of failure

Controlled, governed deployment

Optimize hardware resources

Plan for mergers and acquisitions

Help with understanding applications

Reduce ongoing life cycle costs for managing new CICS systems

CICS PROVISIONING

CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OSCICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS



CICS Deployment Assistant - Discovery

Discovery Tree View

Graphical Visualisation



CICS Deployment Assistant – new in v5.1

Discovery Scoped connections view



• 3 steps to a managed region

• Manage your region from the CICS

SM Explorer perspective

• 3 steps to a managed region

• Manage your region from the CICS

SM Explorer perspective

BenefitsBenefits

DiscoverDiscover

Visualize

Unmanaged regions

Visualize

Unmanaged regions

ManageManage

DA - Plexify your unmanaged regionsDA - Plexify your unmanaged regions



CICS Deployment Assistant v5.1

Reporting



CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS V5.1CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS V5.1

• Enriched discovery of over 30 entities

• Improved visualization with tagging and filtering

• Connections view with scoping

• Export model for external reporting

• CICS TS V5.1 upgrade cheat sheet

• Tagging and filtering of model elements

• New navigators

• Clone JCL improvements

• IPv6 support

• Virtual IP addressing support

• Serviceability enhancements

• Enriched discovery of over 30 entities

• Improved visualization with tagging and filtering

• Connections view with scoping

• Export model for external reporting

• CICS TS V5.1 upgrade cheat sheet

• Tagging and filtering of model elements

• New navigators

• Clone JCL improvements

• IPv6 support

• Virtual IP addressing support

• Serviceability enhancements

What’s new in CICS DA V5.1…What’s new in CICS DA V5.1…

• Visualize and manage your CICS topology

• Discover existing regions and sus-systems

• Automation creates new CICSplex

• Plexify and clone CICS regions

• Start and stop a CICS region

• Visualize and manage your CICS topology

• Discover existing regions and sus-systems

• Automation creates new CICSplex

• Plexify and clone CICS regions

• Start and stop a CICS region

CICS DA enables you to…CICS DA enables you to…



What is CICS IA?

A discovery tool that identifies resource interdependencies and affinities in your CICS systems

Captures CICS application relationships:

Resources used by a transaction - Programs, Files, TSQs, TDQs plus DB2, MQ, IMS, Web services, and Natural

Identifies AG Natural and Adabas relationships

Identifies non-threadsafe programs

Transactions with affinities and their type / lifetime

API changes between CICS versions / releases

Unused resources

Sequencing of transactions within an application

DISCOVERY

What’s its value? Real time documentation of CICS application systems

Automate Threadsafe Analysis

Identify and analyze affinities

Assist in application modernization activities

Quickly identify application scope

Verify the application code via call path tracing

Automatically maintains CPSM rules

Why is this tool important to CICS customers?

Reduce both time/resource required in understanding active CICS application inventory for efficient maintenance and reuse. A manual and error prone process today.

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OSCICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS



Why use CICS IA ?

Projects

– Workload balancing

• Affinity Analysis• Resource utilization

– Application Modernization

• Web services• Atom services• Events deployment

– CICS TS Upgrade

• Understand the use of TRUEs and GLUEs

• Understand the use of modified or deleted SPIs and APIs

• Assist with test coverage

– Threadsafe Analysis

Day to Day usage

– Application changes

• Which programs uses a given resource

– Application deployment

• Governance – check for Affinities , Threadsafe commands , site rules

– Problem determination

• What new commands have been added to a given program using the First_used timestamp column

– VSAM or resource recovery

• Disable all programs that use this file



IA Architecture - Collector

13

AOR or TOR/AOR

Collectors forAffinity

data

Collector Interface Application

Load LibraryCollectors for

Interdependency data

Collectors forCommand Flow

data

Data space

DependencyData

AffinityData

VSAMor

VSAM RLSData sets

Extract records from log stream

CICS Journal Log Stream

Command FlowData (GDG)

CINT log



CICS IA Architecture (Reporting Structure)Application

Load Library

Load ModuleScanner

(LMS)

LMSReport

DependencyReporter

Report

Resource Relationship

DatabaseAffinity & Dependency tables

Command Flow table

SQL Update

Sample Queries

QueryReport

DynamicThreadsafe

Reporter

ThreadsafeReport

IA Explorer

CSECTScanner

CSECTReport

DependencyData

AffinityData

VSAMor

VSAM RLSData sets

SQL UpdateSQL Update

Create CSVfiles

CSV files

SPUFI

Commad FlowData (GDG)

SQL Update

CSV file

Create CSV file



Finding Threadsafe Resources with CICS IA

Transaction identified as having multiple TCB switches

–How do you define as threadsafe and ensure data integrity?

Supplied Explorer queries

–Identify programs used by the transaction with high switches

–Run threadsafe queries on the programs

–Determine TCB used by command within the program

Threadsafe Report

–Analyze the commands issued by programs

Reduce risk of data integrity issues by analyzing the program for shared data access.

Quickly convert programs to threadsafe with confidence.

Solution

Value

Problem



CICS IA Explorer Threadsafe Queries



• Understand threadsafe issues by

program

• Run the report against the latest level

of CICS

• Understand threadsafe issues by

program

• Run the report against the latest level

of CICS

BenefitsBenefitsRun threadsafe report by regionRun threadsafe report by region

View SummaryView Summary

View detail by programView detail by program

Save as HTML report

Save as HTML report

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.1CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS V5.1



CICS IA: Threadsafe report in the plug-in.

18

Open Report and print



Managing CICSPlex Affinities

Dynamically route transactions with affinities

–How do you determine if a transaction has affinities?


–Show CPSM affinity groups

–Show affinities for particular program set

–Show affinities by specific command

Batch Report

–Analyze the Affinities Reporter

–Run the Affinities builder to create CPSM rules

Manage affinities to quickly implement Dynamic Transaction Routing

Maintain affinities for application release migrations

Solution

Value

Problem



CICS IA Affinity Analysis

AffinityData

Resource Relationship

DatabaseAffinity & Dependency tables

IA Explorer (CICS Explorer)

AffinitiesReporter

AffinitiesReport

AffinitiesReports

BuilderAffinityTrans

Group def

AffinityTrans

Group defCICSPlex

SM

OR



Finding Resources Affected a CICS Upgrade

When a new release of CICS is introduced, how do you ensure the applications will function correctly?

A number of APIs and SPIs may have been modified with the upgrade. What programs are using those API/SPIs? .

How do you prove that the application programs were exercised in the upgraded test environment?


–Identify programs using APIs and SPIs that have changed over the release levels for the upgrade.

–Identify Exit programs using APIs/SPIs that have changed.

–Identify Obsolete commands and options

IA’s timestamp feature can be used to show which programs were exercised in the test environment, and which ones were not.

Reduce risk associated to the applications when upgrading to a new release of CICS TS.

Ensure that modules directly impacted by the upgrade get tested

Speed up the upgrade process by focussing on key application modules.

Solution

Value

Problem



CICS IA Explorer – Migration Queries



Find reusable assets with CICS Interdependency Analyzer

Need to find good starting points to build Web services

–Understand target application relationships and dependencies

Need to scope an application change


–Identify candidates to wrap as Web services

–Identify all programs that issue send commands to a particular map

–Expose VSAM files for DB2 conversion

–Identify all programs that access a particular file

–Discover all resources used by a transaction or program

Reduced risk of problems when changing complex applications under time pressure or without deep CICS skills

Speed time to delivery by understanding scope of change

Solution

Value

Problem



CICS IA Dynamic Calls



Show resources for Inbound Web Service




• A pictorial view of resource utilization

• A picture is worth a 1000 words

• A pictorial view of resource utilization

• A picture is worth a 1000 words

BenefitsBenefitsVisualizationVisualization




• Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.1,

including enhanced business application analysis

• New threadsafe analysis plug-in view and report

• Improved installation and configuration

• DB2 data lifecycle management

• Native SQL language stored procedures

• Graphical visualization view of resources

• Support for CICS Transaction Server V5.1,

including enhanced business application analysis

• New threadsafe analysis plug-in view and report

• Improved installation and configuration

• DB2 data lifecycle management

• Native SQL language stored procedures

• Graphical visualization view of resources

What’s new in CICS IA V5.1…What’s new in CICS IA V5.1…

• Identify threadsafe / non-threadsafe programs

• Isolate and remove affinities

• Speed CICSPlex® SM workload management

• Advanced CICS command flow analysis

• Highlight CICS web service candidates

• Identify threadsafe / non-threadsafe programs

• Isolate and remove affinities

• Speed CICSPlex® SM workload management

• Advanced CICS command flow analysis

• Highlight CICS web service candidates

CICS IA enables you to…CICS IA enables you to…



What is CICS PA?

A Comprehensive Performance Reporting and Analysis tool for CICS

Provides ongoing system management and measurement reports on all aspects of CICS application performance

How do it work?

Uses SMF data as input

Easy to use interface for report generation (over 240 supplied report forms)

Performance and Statistical analysis

Graphical performance analysis via the explorer

PERFORMANCE

CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OSCICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

What’s its value? • Analyze CICS Application performance• Improve CICS resource usage• Evaluate the effects of CICS system tuning efforts• Improve transaction response time• Provide ongoing system management and measurement

reports• Increase availability of resources• Increase the productivity of system and application

programmers• Provide awareness of usage trends

Why this tool is important to CICS customers• Reduce both time/resource required to analyze off-line

performance data (usually massive) for tuning and capacity planning purposes.

• Enables deep-dive CICS performance analysis and understanding of usage trends

• Aids capacity planning and tuning• Helps quickly identify and eliminate trends leading to online

performance problems



CICS PA Architecture



Performance Summary report V2R1M0 CICS Performance Analyzer Performance Summary __________________________________________________

SUMM0003 Printed at 15:14:26 2/14/2007 Data from 08:27:42 1/30/2007 to 09:19:35 1/30/2007 Page 8Transaction Response Time Distribution Summary (Percentage) by Time-of-Day

<0.1 0.1-0.25 0.25-0.5 0.5-0.75 0.75-1.0 1.0-1.5 1.5-2.0 2.0-10.0 >=10.0 Max AvgStop Tran #Tasks Response Response Response Response Response Response Response Response Response Response ResponseInterval Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time09:16:00 WMSC 24 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0004 .000409:16:00 29 89.66 6.90 3.45 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .2788 .0212

09:17:00 CEDF 9 11.11 .00 .00 22.22 11.11 22.22 22.22 11.11 .00 2.1832 1.174409:17:00 CEMT 1 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 100.00 14.9315 14.931509:17:00 WMSC 24 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0004 .000409:17:00 34 73.53 .00 .00 5.88 2.94 5.88 5.88 2.94 2.94 14.9315 .7503

09:18:00 CATA 1 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0332 .033209:18:00 CEDF 3 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 33.33 .00 33.33 33.33 32.6115 13.093509:18:00 CEJR 2 50.00 .00 50.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .3164 .158309:18:00 CEMT 3 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0588 .021609:18:00 CESN 1 .00 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .2283 .228309:18:00 CGRP 1 .00 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .1779 .177909:18:00 CISC 1 .00 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .1499 .149909:18:00 CPIR 7 57.14 28.57 14.29 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .3686 .087509:18:00 CPLT 1 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 100.00 .00 6.2207 6.220709:18:00 CQRY 1 .00 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .1021 .102109:18:00 CRSQ 1 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0998 .099809:18:00 CSSY 9 33.33 44.44 11.11 .00 .00 .00 .00 11.11 .00 6.3256 .825009:18:00 CWBG 1 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0420 .042009:18:00 CXRE 1 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0552 .055209:18:00 DPL3 1 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 100.00 50.0251 50.025109:18:00 WMSC 19 100.00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0005 .000409:18:00 53 64.15 18.87 5.66 .00 .00 1.89 .00 5.66 3.77 50.0251 1.9781

Total 1317 75.40 4.56 2.96 4.86 2.51 3.19 1.75 3.04 1.75 1887.437 6.3369



DB2 Reports – ListV3R2M0 CICS Performance Analyzer DB2 - List

DB2R0001 Printed at 10:14:46 2/13/2009 Data from 13:31:17 1/24/2009 to 13:32:08 1/24/2009 Page 1

Tran/ Userid/ Program/ UOW R ..DB2 Wait Time.. DB2 User CPU Response ASSID Authid Planname APPLID Task Seq T Term LUName Connect Thread ReqCnt Time Start Time Stop Time Time B

WROS RAIMAN CRWWPPOS STM4IRA1 34695 1 T <ADQ STM4IRT1 .0000 .0000 18 .3112 13:31:23.053 13:31:34.349 11.2956

CH1G STM4IRA1 CRWWPPOS STM4IRA1 34695 Thread Identification ID=ENTRWROS0037 NETName=USIBMSY.LE000081 UOWID=16372A6C7E14 Begin Time: 13:31:23.056 1/24/09 End Time: 13:31:35.378 1/24/09 Class1: Thread Time Elapsed= 12.3218 CPU= .310480 Class2: In-DB2 Time Elapsed= 11.2359 CPU= .309914 Class3: Suspend Time Total = 6.5988 I/O= 2.3726 Lock/Latch= 4.2262 Other= .0000 Buffer Manager Summary GtPgRq= 8120 SyPgUp= 8 Locking Summary Suspnd= 11 DeadLk= 0 TmeOut= 0 MxPgLk= 1 SQL DML Query/Update Sel= 2 Ins= 0 Upd= 0 Del= 0 SQL DML 'Other' Des= 0 Pre= 0 Ope= 3 Fet= 13 Clo= 0

WRNO RAIMAN CRWWPPNO STM4IRA1 34869 1 T <ACY STM4IRT1 .0000 .0000 67 .0114 13:31:38.853 13:31:45.875 7.0220

CH1G STM4IRA1 CRWWPPNO STM4IRA1 34869 Thread Identification ID=ENTRWRNO0051 NETName=USIBMSY.LE000081 UOWID=1637397E8927 Begin Time: 13:31:38.854 1/24/09 End Time: 13:31:45.808 1/24/09 Class1: Thread Time Elapsed= 6.9534 CPU= .010208 Class2: In-DB2 Time Elapsed= 6.8909 CPU= .008283 Class3: Suspend Time Total = 6.3783 I/O= .0000 Lock/Latch= 6.3783 Other= .0000 Buffer Manager Summary GtPgRq= 173 SyPgUp= 36 Locking Summary Suspnd= 2 DeadLk= 0 TmeOut= 0 MxPgLk= 15 SQL DML Query/Update Sel= 1 Ins= 12 Upd= 11 Del= 0 SQL DML 'Other' Des= 0 Pre= 0 Ope= 12 Fet= 21 Clo= 10

AssociatedDB2 Accounting data

CMFperformancedata



Statistics Alert Reporting …



CICS PA plug-in to the CICS Explorer

Provides numerous methods of visualizing historical transaction performance and statistical data

– Tabular data views with interactive features

– Graphical representation of performance data

– View Statistic Alerts via the explorer

Explorer Displays data loaded from an HDB into a DB2 database or from CSV files

Enhanced to easily work with multiple DB2 data sources

Integrates with the strategic CICS Explorer and other tooling plug-ins

Evolutionary and responsive solution



CICS PA – Integration with the CICS Explorer

Drill into data files using the explorer view

See extracts of the file in raw data form..

..or follow Analysis Scenarios like Threadsafe to highlight issues

Powerful active outline view

speeds selection

Flexibility in what you want to see



• Summarize CICS performance data at

application and transaction level

• Drill down into details such as CPU,

Response time, Storage and TCB usage

• Data filtering to analyze specific transactions

and operations

• Statistics alerts

• Simplify analysis of large volumes of data

• Identify performance bottlenecks promptly

• Summarize CICS performance data at

application and transaction level

• Drill down into details such as CPU,

Response time, Storage and TCB usage

• Data filtering to analyze specific transactions

and operations

• Statistics alerts

• Simplify analysis of large volumes of data

• Identify performance bottlenecks promptly

BenefitsBenefits Summarize and export application and transaction data to DB2

Summarize and export application and transaction data to DB2

Detailed performance and statistics analysis with

data filtering

Detailed performance and statistics analysis with

data filtering

Drilldown to transaction or operation

Drilldown to transaction or operation

CICS PA adds Platform and Application Performance insightCICS PA adds Platform and Application Performance insight



CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.1Performance Insight

CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.1Performance Insight

• CICS TS V5.1 – support for new metrics

• Application, Platform, and Policy

• Plug-in enhancements:

• Application centric view

• Customizable sheet views

• Suspend time reporting

• Easy navigation to key reports and alerts

• SMF log stream support

• Batch statistics reporting for CICS TG

• Improved management of PA data loaded to DB2

• CPU totals on MQ reports

• SMF data processing performance improvements

• CICS TS V5.1 – support for new metrics

• Application, Platform, and Policy

• Plug-in enhancements:

• Application centric view

• Customizable sheet views

• Suspend time reporting

• Easy navigation to key reports and alerts

• SMF log stream support

• Batch statistics reporting for CICS TG

• Improved management of PA data loaded to DB2

• CPU totals on MQ reports

• SMF data processing performance improvements

What’s new in CICS PA V5.1…What’s new in CICS PA V5.1…

• Comprehensive Performance Reporting and Analysis for CICS including DB2, WebSphere MQ, and MVS System Logger

• Understand trends and develop capacity plans

• View statistics and create statistical alerts

• Comprehensive Performance Reporting and Analysis for CICS including DB2, WebSphere MQ, and MVS System Logger

• Understand trends and develop capacity plans

• View statistics and create statistical alerts

CICS PA enables you to…CICS PA enables you to…



What is it? CICS Configuration Manager simplifies CICS

resource-definition administration and maintenance, while at the same time offering comprehensive reporting and optional change-management control facilities.

What’s its value? Simplified and controlled management of CICS

application resources. Aids systems administration, lowers costs, reduces risk of downtime due to user errors and speeds version to version migration

How does it enhance the management of CICS? Create, Update, Delete, Copy, Replicate CICS

resource definitions Provides change management through the life-cycle

stages, e.g. development, test, production Create customized reports to identify redundant

definitions, show resource relationships and change management history

Audit, back-out and change authorization capabilities

Why is this tool important?

Accurate CICS resource definitions are essential to maintain the high availability expected of CICS. With tens, or even hundreds, of CICS regions across the enterprise, each containing hundreds or thousands of artifacts, maintaining potentially millions of definitions can be challenging.

Reduce both time/resource in gaining tighter control over CICS CSD administration

Enhance compliance with change management policies.

Generate audit reports to simplify effort and costs associated with compliance

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

CICS Configuration Manager for z/OSCICS Configuration Manager for z/OS



CICS CM architectureMaintenance pointCMAS

Web UIserver

CICSPlex SM

CICS CMServer

Agent

CICS region

DFHEDAP

DFHEDAP and EXEC CICS CSD

CICSWebsupport

Repository

Journal

CSD file

Datarepository

CICS CM InstallAgent

CICS region

ISC

API

CICS CMClient

SOAP (XML)via TCP/IPsocketsBatch

commandinterface

Yourcustominterface

ISPFdialoginterface



Single point of control over Resource Definitions

Access multiple CSDs, Data Repositories, Lists, and Groups from a single interface














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CICS CM: Migrating definitions through application life cycle

Migration schemes identify source and target repositories

Different schemes to progressively migrate a change package

Developmentenvironment

Testenvironment

Changepackage

Productionenvironment

Changepackage

“Development to Test”migration scheme

“Test to Production”migration scheme



CICS CM: Migrating definitions through application life cycle

Transformation rules tailor definitions for each target:

No manual editing – it’s automatic

Change Group names, attribute values, or resource definition names

Value masking is supported (e.g. change File DSNAME *DEVT* to *TEST*)

Qualification criteria may be specified

Development environment

CPSM DR

Group: PAYDEVTFile: PAYMASTERDSname: PAY.DEVT.MASTER

Test environment

CSD file

Group: PAYTESTFile: PAYMASTERDSname: PAY.TEST.MASTER

TransformationRule



CICS CM – CICS resource definition lifecycle management

• Eliminate manual and error prone processes

• Full audit trail and backout capability

• Integrate with source code change

management processes

• Eliminate manual and error prone processes

• Full audit trail and backout capability

• Integrate with source code change

management processes

BenefitsBenefits

Change package created for resources in Development

repository

Change package created for resources in Development

repository

Change package migrated to test environment

Change package migrated to test environment

Install definitions inCICS regions on test environment

Install definitions inCICS regions on test environment



CICS CM: Backout and audit compliance

All changes logged to a journal file

Backout entire change package

Recover individual resource definitions

View resource definition histories on screen

Batch, ISPF and Explorer view of change history

BackoutProductionChangesSystem failure!Test



CICS CM: Deployment analysis Immediate analysis – no need to stop/start CICS regions

Supports CSD, CPSM, or CSD/CPSM hybrid models

Understands ‘order-sequence’ processing and RASGNDEF overrides

Provides filtering for auto-install, dynamic resources, known conditions

Reports …

CICS regionIn-memory

resource definitions

CICS CM

Storedresource definitions in

CSD files and/or CPSM

What’s new, missing, different Duplicate candidates, winners & losers Referential-integrity errors Un-installable definitions Enabled/disabled states Local/remote indicators

Analysis Report



Cold start analysis

Missing

Different

RI errors




CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS V5.1 - The value of controlCICS Configuration Manager for z/OS V5.1 - The value of control

• Application, Platform, and Policy resources

• Enhanced plug-in with Packaging and Deployment Analysis

• Sort in Package view and Ready list

• ADD/REMOVE CSD group to/from LIST during Migrate operation

• Option to automatically remove empty Groups from CSD List

• SSL support for plug-in connection

• Audit trail for Install and NewCopy

• Application, Platform, and Policy resources

• Enhanced plug-in with Packaging and Deployment Analysis

• Sort in Package view and Ready list

• ADD/REMOVE CSD group to/from LIST during Migrate operation

• Option to automatically remove empty Groups from CSD List

• SSL support for plug-in connection

• Audit trail for Install and NewCopy

What’s new in CICS CM V5.1…What’s new in CICS CM V5.1…

• Manage changes throughout the life-cycle

• Create reports to identify redundant definitions, show resource relationships, and change management history

• Manage audit, back-out and change authorizations

• Manage changes throughout the life-cycle

• Create reports to identify redundant definitions, show resource relationships, and change management history

• Manage audit, back-out and change authorizations

CICS CM enables you to…CICS CM enables you to…



CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS V5.1 - Reduce the risk to your dataCICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS V5.1 - Reduce the risk to your data

• Replication logging in support of the GDPS-Active-Active availability solution

• Batch logging enhancements

• Batch backout improvements

• Migration utility enhancements

• Logstream printing and other usability enhancements

• Replication logging in support of the GDPS-Active-Active availability solution

• Batch logging enhancements

• Batch backout improvements

• Migration utility enhancements

• Logstream printing and other usability enhancements

What’s new in CICS VR V5.1…What’s new in CICS VR V5.1…

• Supports backups created by Backup-While-Open (BWO)

• Automate recovery

• Test forward recovery and backout

• Produce disaster recovery reports

• Supports backups created by Backup-While-Open (BWO)

• Automate recovery

• Test forward recovery and backout

• Produce disaster recovery reports

CICS VR enables you to…CICS VR enables you to…

Original

data

Backed- up

data

Restored original data

Recovery control data

set

Lost data

Forward- recovered

data

log of logs

Backup

DFSMShsm or DFSMSdss

forward recovery

log

CICS application

CICS

LOGOFLOGS REGISTER

CICSVR

LOGOFLOGS SCAN

CICSVR

DFSMShsm or DFSMSdss restore

CICSVR (invokes HSM or DSS)

Forward recovery

CICSVRAfter-images

CICS TS and

CICSVR

CICSVR complete recovery



VSAM based applications VSAM does not easily integrate with data from DB2 and other systems

VSAM is not easily accessible from other platforms

Maintenance and reorg tools lack the richness of DBMS

VSAM is not designed to support 24x7 mixed batch and onlineVSAM to DB2 Business Drivers

Powerful query tools (business intelligence and data analytics) •24 x 7 online operation (near continuous availability)•Online data reorganization and backup (reduce batch outages)•Data sharing flexibility (cloud computing approach)•Access from Java and web services (gateways and connectors)•Application ISV software (removing VSAM dependencies)•Centralization of corporate data (data consolidation)•Availability of DB2 skills •Corporate standardization (eliminating non system based VSAM)



CICS VSAM Transparency Tool to migrate VSAM files to DB2 without changing application programs

Data reengineering facility to create more meaningful in a DB2 environment

Legacy programs access DB2 data using driver modules CICS VT generates for each migrated data set

Both CICS and batch programs can access data in DB2 under the control of CICS VT

Migrated data can be accessed by SQL in new programs

Existing programs can be enhanced using SQL

Low risk migration strategy



The CICS Tools Portfolio CICS Interdependency Analyzer (IA)

Collect active application inventory for efficient resource understandingCICS Performance Analyzer (PA)

Batch performance reporting/analysis for tuning and capacity planning

CICS Configuration Manager (CM)

Administrating and maintaining CICS resource definitions

CICS Deployment Assistant (DA)

Discover, model, visualize, and deploy new and existing CICS regions

CICS VSAM Recovery (VR)

Automate the recovery of lost VSAM data

CICS VSAM Transparency (VT)Enable VSAM to DB2 migration without changes to existing applications

CICS Batch Application Control (BAC)

Manage state of file resources from a batch program

IBM Session Manager (ISM)

Access to multiple z/OS applications from a single terminal

CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer (OTTO)

Optimize outbound 3270 data streams to improve performance



CICS Explorer Redbook - SG24-7778-01

This Redbook® focuses on the new CICS Explorer

The first part of the Redbook overviews the CICS Explorer, along with all the CICS Tools plug-ins

The second part of the Redbook focuses on different scenarios in which the CICS Explorer can be used, along with the CICS Tools plug-ins to resolve different problems

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247778.html?Open



GENAPP – SupportPac and Redpaper

GENAPP available to customers as SupportPac CB12

– Download from http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1085&uid=swg24031760

This presentation is based on GENAPP and the scenarios in this new IBM Redpaper

– Download from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4824.html?Open



CICS Communities and Information

CICS Transaction Server V5.1– http://ibm.com/cics/tserver/v51/

CICS Explorer home page– Remember this link ibm.com/cics/explorer

CICS Explorer Forum– http://tinyurl.com/68bndw – IBM developerWorks forum with FAQs, Links and resources, ISV Contributions, etc. Ask

questions, suggest improvements, report problems, chat

Twitter– Subscribe to the IBM_System_z channel to get CICS Explorer news flashes

CICS Blog– Comment and opinion at TheMasterTerminal.com

CICS eNews– Subscribe for news about CICS and related products

YouTube channels– CICS Explorer - Videos, demos and other cool stuff– CICSFluff - Other CICS videos

CICS Explorer Public Forum

Home page

Twitter

Blog

eNews

YouTube

CICS Hub



Sources of Info Web

– CICS Tools

• Home page ibm.com/cics/tools/ • Trial download ibm.com/software/os/zseries/trials/cicstools/

– CICS Explorer

• Home page ibm.com/cics/explorer • Download page http://ibm.com/cics/explorer/download

– CICS TS home page ibm.com/cics

Demos and animations – System Z Sandbox – hands on use of CICS Explorer and tools:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/emsandbox_systemz/index.html

– CICS Explorer demo - featuring Threadsafe Analysis using the CICS PA and CICS IA perspectives - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk3YdvI8lno

– CICS Explorer animation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NzWwUi5lLw

– CICS Transaction Server in your SOA - Great source of links to more CICS ecosystem information - ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/presentations/CICS_TS_in_your_SOA_-_Links_-_Issue_3.ppt



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