Generating CA Earl Reports on zVM › Using EARLRPTS

Using EARLRPTS

You can use the EARLRPTS exec to generate an CA Earl report. Although EARLRPTS uses some of the same panels as the CA ACF2 full‑screen facility, EARLRPTS is actually a subset of that facility. An important advantage to using EARLRPTS is that you can generate any CA Earl report. This includes the sample CA Earl reports and any custom CA Earl reports that you develop.

To use EARLRPTS,

1. Type EARLRPTS while in CMS.

   The Select SMF input files for reports (6.1) panel appears.

2. Type S next to all SMF files you want included in your reports, then press Enter or Return.

   The selected SMF minidisks are linked and accessed.

Converting SMF Files to Sequential Format

After you select your SMF files, convert those files into sequential format. CA Earl only processes sequential files. CA provides the ACFRPTPP utility to convert the standard CA ACF2 SMF files into a sequential format suitable for CA Earl.

To convert SMF files into sequential format

1. Type PF3 (QUIT)

   The CA ACF2 SMF Record Preprocessor (ACFRPTPP) input selection panel appears.This panel has selection criteria such as Output device, Start date, and so on, with default values shown. By default, the sequential output file is named ACFFLT OUTPUT A. You can type your own values in these fields to change this default.

2. To execute the preprocessor, press Enter.

   The CA ACF2 UTILITY LIBRARY ‑ ACFRPTPP ‑ SMF RECORD PRE‑PROCESSOR appears.

3. Now that you have the sequential file that CA Earl requires, press Clear.

   The EARL SMF Record Preprocessor Panel (6.3.1) appears.

Invoking the CA Earl Report

To see a prompt on your screen requesting the name of the CA Earl report procedure to run, press PF3.

The following is a sample of this prompt. For a complete list of the report names you can enter, see the Table of Reports in the "Sample Reports" chapter. For this example, we entered a response of rptpw.

The report you select (RPTPW in this example) is run, and you can view it on your terminal.

03/29/02                    INVALID PASSWORD REPORT                   PAGE     1
                 RUN DATE:    03/29/02     RUN TIME:    18.00.33
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     DATE  TIME LOGONID  JOBNAME  SUBMITTOR SOURCE    PROGRAM   REASON  LOG  CPU
                                  LID/PROC                        CODE  VIO 
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03‑29‑02  8.32 ECEJAS   ECEJAS   LOGON     LV861                   12  VIO  TLC1 
03‑29‑02  8.32 ECEJAS   ECEJAS   LOGON     LV861                   12  VIO  TLC1 
03‑29‑02  9.13 TLEFKH   TLEFKH   LOGON     LV822                   17  VIO  TLC1 
03‑29‑02  9.18 TLEGEST  TLEGEST  LOGON     LV853                   12  VIO  TLC1 
03‑29‑02  9.18 TLEGEST  TLEGEST  LOGON     LV853                   12  VIO  TLC1 
03‑29‑02  9.43 TLEFKH   TLEFKH   LOGON     LV822                   12  VIO  TLC1