Measurement across the application lifecycle

C\Prof enables specialists involved in all aspects of the CICS application lifecycle to measure performance, diagnose problems, and validate changes to their applications. Working from a single interface, specialists benefit from using a common platform when diagnosing application and performance problems.

	Application Developers	Project Leads	Analysts	Testers	Production Support
Measure every aspect of transaction performance during development.	✔
Diagnose application performance problems. Identify delays in transaction processing before they become a problem in production.	✔
Use as a debugging aid. Visualize application events in detail (EXEC CICS, DB2, IMS and MQ calls, program calls and exits).	✔
Explore code coverage and application completeness during code review.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Compare the before and after picture of a program to validate changes.	✔	✔		✔
Verify that application changes have not adversely impacted response time.		✔		✔
Sign-off application changes by comparing against previous test runs.		✔		✔
Measure all aspects of application performance and identify bottlenecks.			✔
Conduct an analysis of the interdependencies between programs and the resources they use.			✔
Validate the performance of application changes before they go into production.				✔
Diagnose a production problem and minimize system impact by collecting in a short burst.					✔
Snapshot to auxiliary trace data sets as soon as problems occur. Solve the problem without having to recreate it first.	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔