Modifications of transaction response time management

Use the Manage Region Using Goals Of field in the Modify Rules for the Subsystem Type panel to declare that a specific CICS/IMS region will not be managed to the response times of the CICS/IMS transactions that it processes. Note that other regions are not affected by what is in this column, and that this option can only be used in STC and JES classification rules:

Figure 1. Specifying the Manage Region Using Goals Of option

                Modify Rules for the Subsystem Type        Row 1 to 2 of Command
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Subsystem Type . : STC          Fold qualifier names?   Y  (Y or N)
Description  . . . IBM-defined subsystem type
Action codes:  A=After    C=Copy         M=Move     I=Insert rule
               B=Before   D=Delete row   R=Repeat   IS=Insert Sub-rule
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           -------Qualifier---------      Storage    Manage Region
 Action    Type       Name     Start      Critical   Using Goals Of
  ____  1  SY         SYST1    ___        NO         TRANSACTION
  ____  2    TN         CICSTEST ___      NO         REGION
  ____  2    TN         CICS*    ___      YES        TRANSACTION
  ____  2    TN         TOR      ___      NO         BOTH
  ____  2    TN         AOR*     ___      NO         TRANSACTION

If you specify TRANSACTION in this field (the default), the region will be managed as a CICS/IMS transaction server by WLM. If you specify REGION in this field, the region will be managed to the performance goal of the service class assigned to that region (address space). In other words, it will not be managed as a CICS/IMS transaction server by WLM.

If you specify BOTH in this field, the region will also be managed to the performance goal of the service class assigned to that region, but it will nevertheless track all transaction completions so that WLM can still mange the CICS® service classes with response time goals. Option BOTH should only be used for CICS TORs. All AORs should remain at the default TRANSACTION.

If you specify TRANSACTION or BOTH, RMF™ will report performance information as follows:

Response time data is reported in the WLMGL SCPER report for the service class in which those transactions are running
Response time data is also reported in the WLMGL RCLASS report for the report class in which those transactions are running
The service classes served by the region are reported in the WLMGL SCLASS report for the service class in which the region is running.

If you specify REGION, only the information in the SCPER report will change. Transaction response times reported by these regions will not be reported in any service class. This response time data will still be reported in the RCLASS report for the transaction report class, and the service classes served by the region will still be reported in the SCLASS report for the service class in which the region is running. In both of these cases, this information will be useful if you are migrating the CICS/IMS region to transaction response time management, and need both a transaction response time benchmark and a list of the service classes the region is serving.