Using VistaPoint easy menu views

In addition to the views introduced in the previous steps, VistaPoint provides a set of unique views that give you predefined pathways to monitor common aspects of transaction performance. These views are generally called easy menus.

You select an item from a primary easy menu based on the type of performance information you are interested in seeing. You can drill down through application and workload performance data. Each successive hyperlinked view narrows the focus of your diagnostic efforts for the particular aspect of performance you selected.

The following figure shows an example site operating Db2, CICS, and IMS subsystems on two z/OS images. The targets within the shaded arrows are processing transactions resulting from related production work. Common transaction threads may extend between the CICS, Db2, and IMS production targets. The production targets are monitored together by combining their composite workload's transaction performance into a VistaPoint PRODWORK application.

PRODWORK Application Composed of z/OS, Db2, CICS, and IMS Workloads

This step shows a typical sequence of easy menu views you might display to find the source of transaction delays occurring within CICS, Db2, or IMS workloads. The following section uses data from the example PRODWORK application.

This section contains the following: