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Why is the CKBP transaction performing badly?

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Question by Beverly Brown  (1302) | Jun 07, 2016 at 06:22 PM mqmessagingcicscicstsperformancebridge

We have a CICS region that uses the CICS-WebSphere MQ bridge. During higher than normal volumes we see periods of time where there are large gaps for CKBP tasks.

Messages are sent in groups of 6, each with MQCI_NEW_SESSION in the Correlid and MQCUOWC_FIRST in UOWControl. Normally the 6 messages (CKBP tasks) get processed in less than 2 or 3 seconds, but on the days when delays occur they are slow and can take up to 11 seconds.

CKBR is started with AUTH=VERIFY_ALL. A CICS trace shows that AUTHENTICATE_USERID is taking relatively long to complete. During that processing, MQ makes a RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY request (MQ trace entry id VRFYSAFN). A large portion of that gap has to do with ENQ/DEQ requests for SYSZRACF as seen in the systrace.

z/OS GRS (global resource serialization) is executing in a RING comprised of 2 systems with the following specifications:
RESMIL = 15
TOLINT = 180
ACCELSYS= 99

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Answer by Beverly Brown (1302) | Jun 07, 2016 at 06:39 PM

CICS recommends setting RESMIL to 0 or 1 to improve ENQ performance in a GRS Ring environment. Please reference Global CICS enqueue and dequeue: Performance and tuning

If additional systems are added to the GRS RING in the future, it is also recommended to use Ring Acceleration by specifying ACCELSYS(2). RING acceleration defines how many systems must see the RSA-message before a system sends the shoulder-tap acknowledgment.

If there is not an authentication delay, some other things to check include:

  • Have your performance specialists check RMF for any CPU or WLM delays for CICS, MQ, or RACF; DASD delays for data sets associated with those products; or storage constraint.

  • Check if CKBP is in a TCLASS. Please review Controlling CICS-WebSphere MQ bridge throughput.

  • Be sure the bridge request queue is defined with INDXTYPE(CORRELID) as recommended at Setting up the CICS-WebSphere MQ bridge. If that is not set, it can cause delays for the bridge the larger the queue depth becomes.

  • For each MQPUT to the bridge request queue, set MsgId to a unique value for the unit of work or to MQMI_NONE as advised at MQMD fields for CICS-WebSphere MQ bridge messages

  • If you expect a high volume of requests for CICS applications through the CICS-WebSphere MQ bridge, consider setting up additional bridge monitors in further CICS regions as advised at Setting up multiple CICS-WebSphere MQ bridge monitors

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