CICS Threshold to notify if CICS Required Transaction has run recently

Products

• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

We have a transaction that runs to wake up a process in one of our CICS regions.

This transaction runs about once every minute, but not always every minute, maybe once in 90 seconds but at least one time in 5 minutes.

We would like to track this transaction and alert on it if it has not run at least once in a 5 minute interval.

This transaction runs in milliseconds.

What variable I can use in SYSVIEW to accomplish that?

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : SYSVIEW

Resolution

The SYSVIEW variable TSUMELAP allows you to monitor the elapse time since a specific transaction ID has last run.

Therefore, if you set the limit to 5Min, you will be alerted if this ID does not run once every 5 minutes.

Additional Information

Another variable that can be used is TSUMCNR.

If you set up a Threshold for TSUMCNT for the CICSJOBNAME and specify a specific transaction, with a Limit and Warning value of 1, Ruletype LOWER and a Duration of 5 it will work.