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ERXT0354/EZXT0354: I/O Queuing - DCM Channels Summary Report

This report, which is similar to report ERXT0349/EZXT0349, summarizes statistics for DCM channels only. It is broken down by the LCUs that had the channels assigned. The data is summarized over all the intervals in the input data, EXTDATA type R78B.

Dynamic channel path management (DCM) allows z/OS to dynamically change channel path definitions to ESCON director-attached DASD control units in response to changing workloads. DCM moves channel resources to the control units where they are required. Excessive Control Unit Busy or Command Response delays suggest a configuration imbalance that DCM is unable to compensate.

The fields in the report are as follows:

LCU ID

Logical control unit identifier.

DCM MIN/MAX

Minimum and maximum number of DCM managed channel paths used for this LCU during the interval.

DCM DEF

Site-defined number of DCM-managed channel paths for use by this LCU.

CHAN PATH TAKEN

Average rate of I/O requests going through the DCM managed channel paths for this LCU.

PCT PD/CU BUSY

Average percentage of requests deferred due to the director port and control unit being busy.

AVG CUB DELAY

Average delay (in miliseconds) caused by the control unit being busy.

AVG CMR DELAY

Average initial command-response-time delay (in milliseconds) between the first I/O function started and the first response from the device.

1 2/20/08                     I/O QUEUING - DCM CHANNELS SUMMARY REPORT                                                  PAGE 2  REPORT ID: EZXT0354                                    SYSPLEX:  UTCPLXJ8  SOURCE   : SMF 78-3                                     SYSTEM:  J80  FROM DATE: 06/07/24                                  FROM TIME:  11:30:00    TO DATE: 06/07/24                                    TO TIME:  12:00:00 -  LCU DCM DCM DCM  CHAN PATH  PCT PD PCT CU  AVG CUB   AVG CMR   ID MIN MAX DEF    TAKEN     BUSY   BUSY    DELAY     DELAY 00027  3   3   3      32.241    .44    .00       .00       .00  0044  3   3   3        .978    .00    .00       .00       .00  0046          1        .000    .00    .00       .00       .00  0048  1   1   1        .006    .00    .00       .00       .00  004A  1   1   1        .081    .00    .00       .00       .00  004C          1        .000    .00    .00       .00       .00            3   1      33.307    .43    .00       .00       .00