The design of many of today’s business-critical Z applications involve components from multiple disciplines, including CICS, Db2, MQ, and IMS. This places a premium on having visibility into the rich SMF metrics produced by all these disciplines and on staff members who can operate with at least some level of proficiency across multiple disciplines.

This webinar will introduce you to how you can leverage analysis of CICS Transaction (SMF 110.1) and CICS Statistics (110.2) data to enhance performance and availability in your environment. Topics covered will include:

• Approaches to getting your arms around the 100 or so transaction timing buckets provided by CICS to facilitate effective response time analysis
• Visibility into levels of detail within CICS regions provided by the Statistics data including by storage area, TCB pool and mode, and transaction class
• Leveraging automated assessments of key metrics to proactively direct your attention to potential risks to CICS region availability and performance

We welcome industry recognized CICS expert Ezriel Gross as one of the presenters for this webinar. In addition to regularly speaking to CICS specialists, Ezriel is well-known for his contributions to expanding the understanding of CICS concepts across the industry through the “Introduction to CICS for the non-CICS Specialist” sessions he frequently presents at conferences.