JENNIFER monitors IBM Z JVM and CICS Liberty with the transaction-level performance information
What is CICS Liberty?
Liberty is a modular implementation (or profile) of WebSphere Application Server technology.
It is intended to provide a lighter weight and more dynamic runtime than the classic WebSphere Application Server runtime.
With Liberty in IBM CICS in z/OS, you can develop Java EE web applications in an integrated development environment (IDE) and then deploy them to CICS.
This allows Java web developers to participate in developing, extending, and updating business applications for CICS
An inherent benefit of running your Java EE web applications in a Liberty Java virtual machine (JVM) Server in CICS is the simplicity and speed of accessing CICS resources. A request from a web client enters Liberty and runs on a Java thread just like on any Java EE web server.
However, the Liberty server is running within a JVM server in CICS. This results in the Java thread being integrated with CICS in such a way that the request also runs as a CICS transaction
Monitoring and Analysis with JENNIFER
Performance Monitoring of Java application in CICS
JENNIFER provides the Java Performance Information and the Traditional CICS Performance Information in real-time.
CICS GP / ZIIP Usage
- Response time and suspend time
- JVM Performance information
- Transaction Profile: SQL, File, and CICS API Count
GP(General Processor/General CPU) is the main CPU of mainframe to process the traditional applications.
zIIP ( IBM z Systems Integrated Information Processor ) is a cost-effective and dedicated processor designed to operate asynchronously with the general processors in a mainframe to process new workloads like Java workload.
Java Application in the mainframe is using the zIIP, together with GP to initialize jobs, control I/O interrupts, control user interaction with the operating system, etc.
Event alert based on the threshold
JENNIFER catches abnormal application transaction events like the transactions of bad response time, transaction error/ exception and Bad SQL statement, etc, and alerts in real-time.
Analysis of Java application in CICS
JENNIFER provides GP / zIIP Usage Statistics.
JENNIFER provides CICS Performance Information which is Response Time, CPU Time, Java Performance, and Application Processing Information such as DB2 SQL count, VSAM file Access information and CICS API count, etc.
JENNIFER provides Application Status during the specific time period.
Regular Report Generation
JENNIFER can generate various regular reports automatically.
How to get CICS performance data?
JENNIFER Agent and CICS Monitoring program collect CICS performance data and return such data to the JENNIFER server.
*JENNIFER’s Performance Information is slightly different from the CICS monitoring record in SMF due to a timing difference of capturing monitoring data.
Supported Components for JENNIFER Monitoring
- HTTP API to CICS Liberty
- COBOL Link to Java
- Registered Java Classes
- MQ JMS Provider
- Java Batch Job
- Transaction Flows between CICS Liberty and WebSphere Portal
