Cics: Capacity Planning and Performance Management (J RANADE SERIES ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS)

Whether you're a CICS systems programmer, a capacity planner, or a CICS application designer, this unique and original book can help you develop and improve the performance of CICS applications. With an emphasis on long-range performance planning, this sourcebook goes beyond tuning concerns to provide a simple methodology for analyzing CICS workloads, forecasting growth, and estimating queueing delays and response time.Covering the major structural features of CICS/VS, CICS/MVS, and CICS/ESA, this book goes on to review the performance-related aspects of all three versions and tackle a large number of CICS-related topics. It brings together capacity planning, CICS performance analysis, and software performance engineering - everything a data processing professional needs to plan and control performance for CICS applications - in a single source.