IBM CICS Performance Series: Effective Monitoring for CICS Performance Benchmarks
An IBM Redpaper publication
Published 17 February 2015
IBM Form #: REDP-5170-00
(36 pages)
Authors: John Burgess, Manuela Mandelli
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show tools and techniques that can be used to understand the performance characteristics of an IBM® CICS® performance benchmark. It describes why it is important to understand whether other work on your systems can interfere with the system under test. It looks at an example CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) configuration and describes how monitoring tools, including Resource Measurement Facility™ (IBM RMF™) and Workload Manager (WLM) can be used to collect and report performance data.
Table of contents
Achieving consistent, repeatable CPU usage in benchmarks
CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) configuration
CICS TS application
Hardware and software configuration
Summary of performance monitoring tools
z/OS Workload Manager (WLM) and CICS
Executing the benchmark
Analyzing the data
Summary