Peformance metrics and benchmarks for CICS, DB2 and VSAM shop.

[Vandy K]

Hi,

Ours is primarily a CICS, DB2 and VSAM shop. I have been moved to a performance team and I am trying to come up with some metrics to quantify performance of both CICS and batch programs. I also need some benchmarks which is acceptable.

I can think of 'response time of a transaction' as one of the metric for CICS. After searching, I see that there can be other metrics like getpages and cursor opens etc for DB2. But, what are considered as industry standards, how can I identify?

[enrico-sorichetti]

There is no catch all benchmarking profiles/performance metrics ...
all depends who You are talking to ...

for a SLA the metrics could be response time, batch turnaround, application availability

fo accounting could be CPU, IO, disk space, infrastructure related

then there are the system related metrics
IOs per second, IO response time, main storage utilisation, paging, ..., ..., ...

and at the end the programming metrics
- for DB2 the number of cursor opens is a borderline metrics,
- it might just show a very complex application logic ( or poor programming )

research the IBM Redbooks collection for further ideas