How to measure MIPS of a CICS region?

[Gaurav Gagan]

Hi,

Can someone please help me to find a way to determine the amount of MIPS consumed by a CICS region? Can STROBE report help in this but will not it give MIPS consumption just for a single transaction?

Apart from STROBE, is there any way by which we can determine the amount of MIPS consumed by CICS region and a CICS transaction?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

[Robert Sample]

MIPS is not an accurate term to use as it doesn't apply to anything less than an LPAR. However, many people continue to treat MIPS as a resource usage measure.

There are tools that can tell you resource usage for a CICS region or transaction; these tools tend to be quite expensive so some sites use them while others get by without them. MAINVIEW and OMEGAMON are the most common such tools. Consult your site support group to see if your site uses one of them.

[Gaurav Gagan]

Thanks Robert. If we don't tools like MAINVIEW or OMEGAMON can we not not measure the resource usage of a CICS region?

[Robert Sample]

You can get gross measures like CPU time usage by looking at the job output once the CICS region comes down. And you can run statistics if the region is set up for that -- which gives a variety of measures. Or your site SMF data could provide detailed information -- but SMF data is complex and difficult to use without a tool to help (such as MXG). Working with your site support group would be the best way to find out what is available.