CICS Performance Transient Variables

This section describes variable information for the CICS PERFORMANCE TRANSIENT variable class.
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While the information in this topic remains supported, it has been deprecated in favor of newer variable definitions.
Syntax:
This sample syntax creates a tabular report using the TAB command.  Substitute
id_option
and
variable_name
from the following tables:
TAB [DATETIME | DATE | TIME]
id_option
, CICS [PERFORMANCE] TRANSIENT
variable_
name
END RUN
ID Options
Use any CICS PERFORMANCE TRANSIENT variables with the following ID options:
ID Option
Description
ABCODE
Abend codes for transactions
APPLID
VTAM APPLIDs of CICS regions of the CICS system
DCTID
Transient Data Queue name
ENDTIME
Transaction end time
JOBNAME
CICS jobname
STARTTIME
Transaction start time
SYSID
MVS system ID
TERMID
Terminal IDs
TRANID
Transaction IDs
TRANNUM
Transaction numbers
USERID
User IDs
VTAMLU
VTAM logical unit names of terminals
Variables
The following table provides a list of available variables for the CICS PERFORMANCE TRANSIENT variable class:
Variable Name
SMF Type
SMF Subtype
SMF Field
Description
INPUT
READ
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDIN
Number of reads of transient data sets
INPUTMAXRESPonse
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDITIMH
Maximum transient data input response time, in seconds
INPUTMAXSIZE
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDIBYTH
Maximum transient data input request size, in bytes
INPUTRESPonse
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDITIM / MNSTDS_MTDIN
Average transient data input request size, in seconds
INPUTSIZE
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDIBYT / MNSTDS_MTDIN
Average transient data input request size, in bytes
OUTPUT
WRITE
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDOUT
Number of writes to transient data sets
OUTPUTMAXRESPonse
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDOTIMH
Maximum transient data output response time, in seconds
OUTPUTMAXSIZE
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDOBYTH
Maximum transient data output request size, in bytes
OUTPUTRESPonse
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDOTIM / MNSTDS_MTDOUT
Maximum transient data output response time per request, in seconds
OUTPUTSIZE
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDOBYT / MNSTDS_MTDOUT
Average transient data output request size, in bytes
REQuests
255
27
MNSTDS_MTDIN + MNSTDS_MTDOUT
Number of I/Os to transient data sets
Example
The following example uses CICS TRANSIENT variables in a TAB report:
TAB DATETIME JOBNAME, CICS TRANSIENT REQUEST END RUN