CICS Web support

The CICS® Monitoring Facility provides extensive performance class monitoring data for applications using the CICS Web support (CWS). This data includes:
  • Client IP address
  • EXEC CICS WEB API requests
  • EXEC CICS DOCUMENT API requests
  • CICS support for TCP/IP (socket domain) requests
  • The TCP/IP service name and port number of the installed TCP/IP resource definition from which the transaction was initiated
  • EXEC CICS EXTRACT WEB API request count
  • EXEC CICS WEB Browse API requests count
  • EXEC CICS EXTRACT TCPIP and EXTRACT CERTIFICATE API requests count
  • EXEC CICS WEB API requests used by application programs using the CICS Web support for CICS as an HTTP client

For detailed information on the monitoring data provided for the CICS Web support, see the sections on DFHWEBB, DFHDOCH, and DFHSOCK performance data in the CICS Performance Guide.

Performance List and Summary reports

CICS PA provides several Sample Report Forms that you can use for detailed analysis of transactions that use CICS Web support:
WBLST, WBR3LST
See Performance List report
WBSUM, WBR3SUM
See Performance Summary report

For more general information on CICS Web support, see the CICS Internet Guide.

Transaction Group report

The CICS PA Transaction Group report is particularly useful in understanding the relationship and flow of transactions that originate through the CICS Web support.