Business Transaction Analysis (SAP Library

Business Transaction Analysis

Use

You can use the workload monitor to display the business transaction analysis. This analysis calculates the use of system resources by individual transactions, and provides the most detailed analysis of a transaction and dialog steps. The selection criteria includes: user, transaction, program, task type, start date, and start time.

The time frame that is analyzed may be larger than the interval that was set by the read time, since the system always attempts to analyze complete transactions, although a complete analysis of long-running transactions may not be possible. As the business transaction analysis is time-intensive, set the interval that you want to monitor as short as possible (around ten minutes).

Procedure

Start the workload monitor by calling Transaction ST03N.

Select the user mode that you want to use.

You can only display the business transaction analysis using the expert or service engineer user modes.

Choose Detail analysis ® Business transaction analysis.

You can choose one of the following display modes on the initial screen:

Show all statistic records, sorted by start time
Displays a chronological list of dialog steps and resource consumption (corresponds to individual record statistics, transaction statistics)

Show all records, grouped by business transaction
Displays a list of dialog steps and their resource consumption. The individual dialog steps for an individual transaction are included in the list.

Show business transaction totals
Displays the total for each transactions. This is the variant that is most frequently used.

If you set certain restrictions in the first two modes listed above, such as only for certain users, transactions and so on, the system only reads the corresponding records. In the third mode, the system reads all records, but only displays those that match the selection criteria. ensure you take this into account if you choose Disp. mode to switch to a different display mode.

Include statistics from memory
The system first buffers the statistical data before reading it into the statistics file. This option forces the buffer to write the data to the file before the analysis starts. This ensures that all transactions can be analyzed.

Include application statistics
The system also displays application statistics.

Server selection
This option restricts the analysis to specific application servers in the system.

Additional options
These can be used to set the wait time for RFCs and the maximum runtime of the analysis, as well as the time interval that you set for the analysis.

See also:

Displaying Transaction Workload

Displaying Workload over Specific Time Periods

Comparing Workload Between Servers