Summary
Acquire can write a file showing the counts of the numbers of CICS transactions (as recorded in Type 110 records or from TMON/CICS data) that achieved certain values of Internal Response Time. By default the counts are written into each of 40 “buckets", each 0.1 seconds wider than the previous one, with a Total bucket to contain the total transaction count. Therefore, the individual buckets will show:
The total number of transactions less than 0.1 seconds
The total number of transactions less than 0.2 seconds
The total number of transactions less than 0.3 seconds
And so on, to…
The total number of transactions less than 4.0 seconds
The total number of transactions including all transactions longer than 4.0 seconds.
The format and structure of this file make it easy to perform various percentile and other calculations.
One record is written to the file for each CICS application encountered in the input data. The records contain the date and time of the captured data, and the CICS Application ID. The date and timestamps in the record, and the SMF ID, are the same as those in the main Acquire output file.