Problem with JOBNAME Logical Group and Threshold Triggering

Products

• SYSVIEW Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

I am trying to use logical groups in CICS threshold definitions, but having trouble using type JOBNAME. I have the following definitions in the GROUPS parmlib member: 

DEFINE CICSM 
TYPE JOBNAME 
DESC 'TEST lpar CICS Regions ' 
MEMBER CICSM1 
MEMBER CICSM2 
DEFINE MXXXXX TYPE CICSTRAN DESC 'Test out GROUP function ' 
INSTANCE = 
MEMBER SSCC 
MEMBER SSCD 

The following threshold definition coded in the CTHRESH member does not trigger: 

DEFINE LIFETIME JOBNAME >CICSM TRAN >MXXXXX RSCE = LIMIT 30.000 ....

 I also have this rule defined that is triggered:

 DEFINE LIFETIME JOBNAME CICSM* TRAN = RSCE = LIMIT 600.000 ...

Why doesn't the rule defined for the Group CICSM (LIFETIME JOBNAME >CICSM TRAN >MXXXXX RSCE = LIMIT 30.000 ...)  trigger?

Environment

SYSVIEW R16.0 and prior releases

Resolution

First of all, Type CICSPLEX, not JOBNAME,  need to be used creating a logical group for " lpar CICS Regions"  (in this case Group CICSM).

So the definition within  the  GROUPS parmlib member needs to be changed to: 

DEFINE CICSM 
TYPE CICSPLEX
DESC 'TEST lpar CICS Regions ' 
MEMBER CICSM1 
MEMBER CICSM2 

Then when viewing the definitions online, we can better understand how the Threshold process searches threshold definitions and finds the best match on a rule.  All threshold definitions for the specific metric or variable name will be processed. The last match in the list "wins". The generic threshold ( DEFINE LIFETIME JOBNAME CICSM* TRAN = RSCE = ) wins over the process to find the best match for a transaction defined in group MXXXXX running in any of the CICS regions included in the CICSM group.

Additional Information

See Topics : Exception definition best match rules    (Type TOPICS in SYSVIEW to reference) 
See HELP panel for CTHRESH command