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Data Collection Validation

These commands help you to determine whether CA SYSVIEW is configured correctly for CA Cross-Enterprise APM and whether it is correctly capturing data.

ACTIVITY Command

The ACTIVITY command displays the status of jobs executing on the system. A job can be a started task, a TSO user, or a batch job. By verifying data in this panel, it ensures that you are collecting data that is used for CA Cross-Enterprise APM.

ASADMIN Command

The ASADMIN (Address Space Administration) command displays information about the CA SYSVIEW address spaces running on your system. The displayed panel shows the status of the various tasks running in those address spaces. The panel also provides line commands, such as START and STOP, which enables you to control the task execution.

On the panel, enter SEL JOBNAME = SYSVIEW and ensure that the following tasks are active:

• For MVS, the MVSDATA task must be active.
• For CICS, the CICSDATA task must be active. The CICSLOGR task is active if you plan to do cross-process tracing into CICS.
• For IMS, the IMSDATA task must be active. The IMSLOGR task is active if you plan to do cross-process tracing into IMS.
• For WebSphere MQ, the MQSDATA task must be active.
• For TCP/IP, the TCPDATA task must be active.

If any of these tasks are not active, you can manually start them by typing START on the Cmd line. You can also stop a task using the STOP line command.

To start a data collection task permanently, modify the CNM4BPRM(SYSVIEW) member that is read at task startup. Changes will take effect next time CA SYSVIEW is started.

Some SYSVUSER tasks must be running for the CA Cross-Enterprise APM agent to connect to CA SYSVIEW. These tasks are the XS* cross-system tasks that start automatically with the SYSVUSER job.

CICSLIST Command

The CICSLIST command displays information about CICS regions.

In the Status column, ACTIVE indicates that CA SYSVIEW monitoring is active in that region. NOSTART indicates that CA SYSVIEW monitoring is not started for that region.

DCLIST Command

The DCLIST command displays information about CA Datacom address spaces that are currently being monitored. A list of active address spaces are obtained dynamically.

IMSLIST Command

The IMSLIST command displays information about IMS control regions.

The Status column on this panel indicates whether that control region is active. CA SYSVIEW recognizes all the defined IMS subsystems and automatically monitors all active control regions.

MQLIST Command

The MQLIST command displays information about defined WebSphere MQ subsystems.

The Status column on this panel indicates whether a queue manager is active or inactive. The Mon column indicates whether monitoring is configured for a queue manager.

TCPLIST Command

The TCPLIST command displays information about defined TCP/IP stacks.

The Status column indicates the status of a TCP/IP stack. The Mon column indicates whether monitoring is configured for a stack.

USERS Command

The USERS command displays user session information. When the CA Cross-Enterprise APM job (WILYZOS) is running and successfully connected to CA SYSVIEW, the job name is listed on the USERS panel.

You can use the LISTLOG line command to help you verify that the CA Cross-Enterprise APM agent is working properly. LISTLOG lists the commands that the agent is entering against CA SYSVIEW. Not seeing commands within the defined interval (in the agent properties file) indicates a possible problem.